Definitions
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- adj. Causing discomfort or uneasiness.
- adj. uncomfortable
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.
- adj. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Causing uneasiness; unpleasant; giving pain; making sad.
- Uneasy; melancholy; refusing comfort.
- Causing discomfort; discommodious; uncomfortable.
Etymologies
Examples
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Andrew Todd, Basalt First is when he used the word "discomfortable" in the same sentence as
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And she is good to stand by horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose business is in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to Hecate and the loud-crashing Earth – Shaker, easily the glorious goddess gives great catch, and easily she takes it away as soon as seen, if so she will.
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After that the sad and discomfortable night had spent it selfe, and the break of day was beginning to appeare; Ancilla the waiting-woman, according as she was instructed by her Lady, went downe and opened the Court doore, and seeming exceedingly to compassionate the Schollers unfortunate night of sufferance, saide unto him.
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There followed one of those discomfortable hours well known to well-bred people, when four of them are anxious upon a subject which they must not broach to the fifth, and the fifth becomes aware of this anxiety.
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I never saw (no, never even in the most horridly stuffy ballroom) such a discomfortable collection of human beings.
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And she is good to stand by horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose business is in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to Hecate and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, easily the glorious goddess gives great catch, and easily she takes it away as soon as seen, if so she will.
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But truly I shall be very -- very discomfortable if I eat all this riches.
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From pain and strife and the discomfortable wonder
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Out of the whole twelve months there are scarce twelve days where this bubbling up of water in our city does not look a very discomfortable object.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
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