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Discomfortable

Discomfortable \Dis*com"fort*a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. desconfortable.]

  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. [Obs.]
    --Sir P. Sidney.

  2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. [R.]

    A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.
    --Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

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discomfortable

a. 1 (context obsolete English) Causing discomfort or uneasiness. 2 (context obsolete English) uncomfortable

Usage examples of "discomfortable".

But in her he could see the discomfortable fear for her daughters at work, and he refrained from touching her torn feelings.

Only the discomfortable spasms which flicked their faces, and the unnecessary violence of their emanations, gave any indication that they had ever been unlike what they were now.

But the Margrave was ill at ease in this place of discomfortable forces, and came to the point as quickly as manners would permit.

So into the nervous night, blear-eyed, he waited on their presence, and ultimately at the moment which said a well-measured time-candle, and no visible stars corresponded with the time of full moon, he rose expectantly from his discomfortable posture on the floor in the middle of his cracked mirror.

He heard the girl beside him utter a discomfortable sound, and saw her face cloud as if tears were not far off.

I never saw (no, never even in the most horridly stuffy ballroom) such a discomfortable collection of human beings.

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.

If I am answered by many, this Sea will become a discomfortable swimming-place.