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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Without comfort; destitute of or unattended by any satisfaction or enjoyment. Of persons.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Offering no comfort.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. without comfort

Examples

  • “They crossed the Atlantic in comfortless craft and took the serious risk of attempting to secure a foothold in free and fresh Canada.”

    The Conquest of National Fear

  • “There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.”

    A Study in Scarlet

  • “The announcement made them feel as if they were to be left "comfortless" and forsaken.”

    The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church

  • “In a word, it was precisely the kind of comfortless apartment that a ghost, if ghost there were in the chateau, would single out for its favourite lounge.”

    Tales of a Traveller

  • “a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.”

    A Study in Scarlet

  • “They were famished, and there was not a vestige of food in their comfortless home.”

    Revolution

  • “Many men at the time sought wives to save them from a "bleak life" (a term used in stories of the era), of loneliness and comfortless homes.”

    Archive 2009-05-01

  • “Instead of a faith that only has something to offer to those who don't understand a phenomenon, those who are fearful, the comfortless, those near death, or the depressed, what if we had a concept of God independent of gaps and voids?”

    The Huffington Post: Victor Udoewa: Does Science Make Belief In God Obsolete?

  • “I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although wetted by the rain, which poured from a black and comfortless sky.”

    Chapter 4

  • “The hallucinatory quality of his interpretation is matched by a corresponding vividness in Martineau's playing, which uncompromisingly suggests the corrosive impact of the comfortless winter landscape on the protagonist's mind.”

    The Guardian: Schubert: Winterreise – review

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