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Webster 1913 Edition


Discomfortable

Dis-com′fort-a-ble

,
Adj.
[Cf. OF.
desconfortable
.]
1.
Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
2.
Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable.
[R.]
Dis-com′fort-a-ble-ness
,
Noun.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Discomfortable

DISCOMFORTABLE

,
Adj.
1.
Causing uneasiness; unpleasant; giving pain; making sad. [Little used.]
2.
Uneasy; melancholy; refusing comfort. [Not used.] [Instead of this word, uncomfortable is used.]

Definition 2024


discomfortable

discomfortable

English

Adjective

discomfortable (comparative more discomfortable, superlative most discomfortable)

  1. (obsolete) Causing discomfort or uneasiness.
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  2. (obsolete) uncomfortable
    • (Can we date this quote?), Thackeray, (Please provide the title of the work):
      A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.
  3. shameful; such as to bring disgrace upon
    • 1898, Henry James, The Turn of the ****
      But there was everything, for our apprehension, in the lucky fact that no discomfortable legend, no perturbation of scullions, had ever, within anyone's memory attached to the kind old place.

Derived terms

  • discomfortableness