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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)
- (obsolete) Causing discomfort or uneasiness.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir P. Sidney to this entry?)
- (obsolete) uncomfortable
- (Can we date this quote?), Thackeray, (Please provide the title of the work):
- A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.
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- 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.
- 1898, Henry James, The Turn of the ****
Derived terms
- discomfortableness