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discomfortable

discomfortable adjective: causing discomfort or uneasiness.

Adjective

discomfortable (comparative more discomfortable, superlative most discomfortable)

  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

Forms of discomfortable

comparativemore discomfortable
superlativemost discomfortable

Origin of discomfortable

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

Words formed from discomfortable

Questions about discomfortable

What does discomfortable mean?
Discomfortable means causing discomfort or uneasiness.
What part of speech is discomfortable?
Discomfortable is an adjective.

Words near discomfortable in the dictionary

  1. discomfitted
  2. discomfitting
  3. discomfiture
  4. discomfitures
  5. discomfort
  6. discomfortable
  7. discomfortableness
  8. discomfortably
  9. discomforted
  10. discomforter
  11. discomforters

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