uncomfortable

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  1. adjective Experiencing physical discomfort.
  2. adjective Ill at ease; uneasy.
  3. adjective Causing anxiety; disquieting.

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  • The girl is actively miserable and her husband is indifferently uncomfortable, which is the habit this married couple have of experiencing the same emotion Alice is a mass of contradictions to those who do not understand her--now in the clouds, now in the depths. —  The Love Affairs of an Old Maid
  • My leg was deuced--uncomfortable, y' know, but I put on a spurt, and managed to draw level with him. —  The Amateur Gentleman
  • Again and again he had been on the point of doing this when alone with Leila--uncomfortable, even apprehensive, because of their frank intimacy; but he had never had the opportunity to do so without deliberately dragging in the subject by the ears in all its ugliness and implied reproach for her imprudence, and seeing that dreadful, vacant change in Leila’s face, which the mere mention of her husband’s name was sure to bring, turn into horror unspeakable A man not prone to fear his fellows, he now feared Mortimer, but that fear struck him only through Leila--or had so reached him until the days of his closing struggle with Quarrier. —  The Fighting Chance
  • This made me extremely uncomfortable, and it was a relief when they began to go out again One of the men was seated near me; he was of those who had assisted in carrying the corpse, and he now turned to me and remarked: "You have been a long time in the open air, and probably feel the change as much as we do I assented, and he rose and walked away to the far end of the hall, where a great door stood facing the one by which we had entered. —  A Crystal Age
  • Sometimes there were at least seven spots on the borders of the lake where the molten lava dashed up furiously against the rocks--seven fire fountains playing at the same time I had for some time been feeling very hot and uncomfortable, and on looking round, the cause was at once apparent. —  Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools
 

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unpleasant ·  uneasy ·  painful ·  awkward ·  depress ·  embarrass ·  unsettle ·  pleasant
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/ənˈkəmfərtəbl/
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