The Collaborative International Dictionary
Uncomfortable \Un*com"fort*a*ble\, a.
Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
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Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation.
The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year.
--Addison. [1913 Webster] -- Un*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*com"fort*a*bly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In an uncomfortable manner.
WordNet
adv. in physical discomfort; "she lay on the couch, her body uncomfortably twisted" [ant: comfortably]
Usage examples of "uncomfortably".
The three-legged man was a tall, meek-looking person, who had bedizened himself with gorgeous garments, a great feather, and a sword so long and broad, that it differed little in size from the very thin and stiff shanks between which it wandered uncomfortably.
Rurik cocked his head to the side, and his mischievous eyes skimmed over her body with a boldness that made Maire squirm uncomfortably on her already shaky perch.
Whitehorse Mornette, nearly two meters tall and still growing, folded himself uncomfortably into the last seat left on the bus.
Fuzwik squirmed uncomfortably in his seat as he sat in the presence of Overseer Tejharet, Seeress Jenoset, and his fellow seeress consort, Padrin.
I was uncomfortably aware that Starling had stirred it up intending for me to hear it.
In his presence I became uncomfortably aware of my male-patterned baldness and slight, unathletic paunch.
His legs ached, and his knees still wobbled from the terrifying ride he and his shipmates had endured astride the slippery unsinged portions of the uncomfortably rotund serpent.
Scuttlesby dragged it away, whereafter we all moved to the bench-style veranda swing, upon which we sat uncomfortably close to one another, pondering the meaning of existence, until Mrs.
OF THE TIMES when Adams felt himself uncomfortably alone at center stage, there were few to compare to the afternoon in London, when at the end of a short ride through the rain with Lord Carmarthen in his carriage, they approached the arched gatehouse at St.
Ryan, leading them off, his bootheels ringing uncomfortably loudly on the stone floor.
Behind him the crowd was dispersing as one by one the other passengers made their way nervously back to their own cabins, looking uncomfortably around them as they went.
She was uncomfortably aware that Barnes and Dasi kept step, poised to catch her if she stumbled.
Alara stirred uncomfortably at the memory, and realized that in her preoccupation with her own memories, she had transformed back to her draconic form entirely.
Lucrezia said, hoping that it might be true although she was uncomfortably aware of the fact that she could not be certain of a warm welcome from Carus Fraxinus and Aulakh Phar now that Hyry was not with her.
Carus Fraxinus told him, as he settled himself into an uncomfortably narrow niche.