Meanings
comparative comfier · superlative comfiest
- informalComfortable.
The robe and slippers were so warm and comfy she just fell asleep in her chair.
2 more examples
"We're all gettin' a deal too soft and dull and comfy. Give me the great waste lands and the wide spaces, with a gun in my fist and somethin' to look for that's worth findin'."
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLCAs an industry, the railways need to give passengers comfy seats. OK, in this case you might only be on the train for 20 or 30 minutes, but why should you not have comfort for even the shortest of journeys?
2023 July 26, Pip Dunn, “Merseyrail '777s' are OK for commuters”, in RAIL, number 988, page 61
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveproviding or experiencing physical well-being or relief (‘comfy’ is informal)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Clipping of comfortable + -y (adjectival suffix). Origin: early 19th century.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish mukava, lokoisa
- mukavacomfortable
- lokoisacomfortable
French confortable
- confortablecomfortable
German bequem
- bequemcomfortable
Italian comodo
- comodocomfortable
Māori āhuru
- āhurucomfortable
Romanian confortabil, comod
- confortabilcomfortable
- comodcomfortable
Spanish cómodo, confortable
- cómodocomfortable
- confortablecomfortable
Swedish bekväm, mysig
- bekvämcomfortable
- mysigcomfortable
Cite this entry
comfy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comfy
“comfy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comfy. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “comfy,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/comfy.
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