discomfort
Etymology

From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter.

Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /dɪsˈkʌmfət/
  • (America) IPA: /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/
Noun

discomfort

  1. Mental or bodily distress.
  2. Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
Translations Translations Verb

discomfort (discomforts, present participle discomforting; simple past and past participle discomforted)

  1. To cause annoyance or distress to.
  2. (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
    • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:
      His funeral shall not be in our camp,
      Lest it discomfort us.



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