uncomfortable
Etymology
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Etymology
From un- + comfortable.
Pronunciation Adjectiveuncomfortable
- Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
- The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC ↗:
- Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
- Experiencing discomfort.
- Uneasy or anxious.
- Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable.
- Put off or disgusted.
- French: inconfortable
- German: unbequem, ungemütlich
- Portuguese: desconfortável, incómodo (Portugal), incômodo (Brazil)
- Russian: неудо́бный
- Spanish: incómodo
- German: unbehaglich
- Russian: стеснённый
- Spanish: incómodo, a disgusto
- Portuguese: constrangido
- Spanish: incómodo, cohibido
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