discomfortable

discomfortable

English

Etymology

Compare Old French desconfortable.

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 book title or journal name):

     A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.

3. shameful; such as to bring disgrace upon
   • 1898, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

     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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for discomfortable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)