discomfortable

adj — 2 senses

discomfortable

adj

Etymology Compare Old French desconfortable, equivalent to discomfort + -able or dis- + comfortable.

1

Obsolete Causing discomfort or uneasiness

  • an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity1886, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare, John Webster:
2

Obsolete uncomfortable

Derived terms
discomfortableness, discomfortably

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