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uncomfily

uncomfily adverb: uncomfortably.

Adverb

uncomfily (comparative more uncomfily, superlative most uncomfily)

  1. (informal) Uncomfortably.
    • EVERYTHING’S not comfily intimate, but uncomfily promiscuous and vast.1920, Pan, page 15
    • I only just succeed in holding it out of the way, for parts of two trucks just touch it, and clang rather baulkingly, and the wheels are uncomfily close to my head.1929, Oliver Elton, “Press Censorship”, in C. E. Montague: A Memoir, London: Chatto & Windus, pages 220–221

Forms of uncomfily

comparativemore uncomfily
superlativemost uncomfily

Origin of uncomfily

From uncomfy + -ly.

Questions about uncomfily

What does uncomfily mean?
Uncomfily means uncomfortably.
What part of speech is uncomfily?
Uncomfily is an adverb.

Words near uncomfily in the dictionary

  1. uncomely
  2. uncometary
  3. uncomf
  4. uncomfertable
  5. uncomfies
  6. uncomfily
  7. uncomfiness
  8. uncomformable
  9. uncomfort
  10. uncomfortability
  11. uncomfortable

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