adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a painful/uncomfortable reminder
▪ This violence is a painful reminder that peace is still a long way away.
an awkward/uncomfortable/embarrassed silence
▪ ‘Fred tells me you like books,’ Steve said, after an awkward silence.
distinctly uncomfortable/uneasy/unhappy etc
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ A question bubbled from some remote corner of his brain, as uncomfortable as the children's sores.
▪ Dole is as uncomfortable with abortion today as he was then.
distinctly
▪ Evans had been distinctly uncomfortable about Horowitz's presence in his office.
▪ She had a distinctly uncomfortable feeling that he was not referring to the fight which had followed that little incident.
▪ A single nun, working in an unorthodox manner in the slums, made some of the local clergy distinctly uncomfortable.
▪ I was 17, a private just a few weeks into my enlistment, and distinctly uncomfortable.
extremely
▪ Space for a raiding party was limited, and jolting across the sand perched up on the back was extremely uncomfortable.
▪ In the severe case he or she is extremely uncomfortable, experiencing vertigo on any head motion accompanied by nausea and vomiting.
▪ Even so, she felt extremely uncomfortable about facing him while the details were so clear in her mind.
▪ When you do that it gets extremely uncomfortable for the abuser.
how
▪ Sylvie suddenly remembered how uncomfortable in his own skin Leo had been at fourteen.
▪ This reveals just how uncomfortable many men are about asking these questions.
▪ Odd, how uncomfortable the question made him.
▪ He knew how uncomfortable she felt and he was enjoying every single minute of it!
more
▪ I was soon made to feel even more uncomfortable.
▪ The staff, which was quite orthodox psycho-analytically, became more and more uncomfortable.
▪ It was still hot and the seats grew more uncomfortable as the night wore on.
▪ Bedford grew more uncomfortable with the silence at the table.
▪ I had never seen him look more uncomfortable, more thoroughly out of place.
most
▪ The expression of the shop assistant was making her most uncomfortable.
▪ But there is something about those headphones which makes me most uncomfortable.
▪ It was a most uncomfortable meal.
▪ With these new molecules from nature scientists hope to combat one of the most uncomfortable and vexing problems in medicine more effectively.
▪ Not only was this unhygienic but it was most uncomfortable for me, being in close proximity to him.
▪ It was a most uncomfortable conversation, and I hadn't anticipated it.
▪ So usually we avoid them which is why an effective appraisal interview can be a most uncomfortable experience.
rather
▪ But I have always felt rather uncomfortable in her presence.
▪ The creative team Generally speaking they are the ones who do not wear suits - or look rather uncomfortable when they do.
▪ The success of the Green Movement over the last few years has left that rather uncomfortable question hanging in the air.
slightly
▪ She found it slightly uncomfortable, being scrutinized by a bird.
so
▪ He would become so uncomfortable that he would eventually leave the table and make some more coffee!
▪ Freeman, of all people, knows this, which is why she is often so uncomfortable with the talk of reconciliation.
▪ Perhaps that's why I felt so uncomfortable with those men.
▪ Is that Troy Aikman or a koala with lower digestive difficulties looking so uncomfortable on the Dallas sideline?
▪ Not for a long time had Vi felt so uncomfortable.
▪ But we would fall asleep in one another's arms - that romantic image which is in reality so uncomfortable and painful.
▪ What was it about unashamed luxury, Harriet sometimes asked herself, which made her feel so uncomfortable?
▪ She had never felt so uncomfortable in her life.
too
▪ Travel was not too uncomfortable, and when it stopped there were amusing soldiers to talk to.
▪ Tuymans should have won a prize, but maybe his message was too uncomfortable.
▪ They say it would make journeys too uncomfortable for passengers and slow their journey times, making services uneconomical.
▪ An excess of teenage hormones, he told himself, lying desperately because the truth was too uncomfortable to face.
▪ Only those thoughts were too uncomfortable to contemplate so she pushed them back into her mind.
▪ It ain't too uncomfortable, but it's really blummin cold.
very
▪ He was on a very uncomfortable bed.
▪ In the preponderance of cases, marked nystagmus is accompanied by a very uncomfortable feeling of vertigo. 3.
▪ Gardener's knee pads are a good idea: kneeling on joists can be very uncomfortable.
▪ There was a shot of Ramirez on the bench looking very uncomfortable.
▪ When I woke up, I was on a train and feeling very uncomfortable after a long sleep.
▪ All in all, it is reported to be a very uncomfortable experience.
▪ She was starting to feel very uncomfortable.
■ NOUN
feeling
▪ But the uncomfortable feeling remained, and to cheer herself up, Grace began to plan what she would wear tomorrow.
▪ The uncomfortable feeling she'd had earlier on had come back again and sat like a solid lead ball in her chest.
▪ An hour's walk in the countryside will dissipate any uncomfortable feelings absorbed from others.
▪ The country has an uncomfortable feeling of the powder-keg about it.
▪ Must be an uncomfortable feeling at a time like this.
▪ It gave her the uncomfortable feeling of being turned inside out for better examination.
▪ I still had this uncomfortable feeling that I did know her.
▪ He was glad to have met the Collector again, but he had the uncomfortable feeling of many things left unsaid.
position
▪ Mr Smyth argued that it would place officers in the uncomfortable position of patrolling with colleagues they had once arrested.
▪ This is a terribly uncomfortable position, unless you have either very long legs or a big rear end.
▪ In other words the objective is to escape from an uncomfortable position rather than to reach a particular destination.
▪ After some really lackluster efforts we are put in the uncomfortable position of rooting for an injury.
question
▪ She threw out the uncomfortable question, its pain-filled answer.
▪ But dialogues must begin with tough or uncomfortable questions.
▪ It is the novel's obsession with the dead that begins to give answers to these pressing and uncomfortable questions.
▪ That uncomfortable question has faced many investors.
▪ The success of the Green Movement over the last few years has left that rather uncomfortable question hanging in the air.
silence
▪ The landlady stared at her in an uncomfortable silence.
▪ There was a long, uncomfortable silence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ All this talk about love and romance was making me uncomfortable.
▪ cheap uncomfortable shoes
▪ I feel uncomfortable talking about Gayle when she isn't here.
▪ I hate travelling by train - the carriages are always so dirty and uncomfortable.
▪ In those days visiting the island meant a long uncomfortable voyage across choppy seas.
▪ Jim always felt uncomfortable on such formal occasions.
▪ She was dressed in a very tight skirt and uncomfortable-looking shoes.
▪ The heat was making us all uncomfortable.
▪ These chairs may look good, but they're very uncomfortable to sit on.
▪ They were forced to spend another uncomfortable night at the airport waiting for their plane.
▪ You look uncomfortable. Why don't you sit over here?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A smart suit with cheap uncomfortable shoes generally reveals a man posing above his station.
▪ Even a soft body brush can feel uncomfortable if the bristles are stuck into the skin.
▪ Inside, the house was dark and uncomfortable.
▪ Let Lucy articulate, lay herself on whatever uncomfortable line it was that she had elected to draw.
▪ Obviously, do not expect your pet to settle down readily on a wet or uncomfortable surface.
▪ Perhaps that's why I felt so uncomfortable with those men.
▪ She wanted to make him uncomfortable, make it hard for him to read.
▪ The only uncomfortable moment was when a cell phone began ringing behind them and they started smiling at each other.