Discomfort
[dɪs'kʌmfət] or [dɪs'kʌmfɚt]
Definition
(noun.) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress.
(noun.) the state of being tense and feeling pain.
Checker: Mandy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To discourage; to deject.
(v. t.) To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive o/ quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.
(v. t.) Discouragement.
(v. t.) Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow.
Typed by Belinda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Uneasiness, disquiet, inquietude, trouble, annoyance.
Checked by Gilbert
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Disquiet, vexation, annoyance, trouble, unpleasantness, disagreeableness
ANT:Comfort, ease, pleasantness, agreeableness, Discommendation, #N/A,[SeeMENDATION]
Typist: Wilhelmina
Definition
n. want of comfort: uneasiness: pain.—v.t. to deprive of comfort: to make uneasy: to pain: to grieve.—adj. Discom′fortable causing discomfort: uncomfortable.
Editor: Yvonne
Examples
- Early says in his Memoirs that if we had discovered the confusion in his lines we might have brought fresh troops to his great discomfort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But let us take a decided course, and put an end to any discomfort you may be suffering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For the same reason a burning match may be held without discomfort until the flame almost reaches the hand. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Besides it felt so uncomfortable that he quickly decided that he preferred the shame to the discomfort. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- That was all that had been explicitly in her mind; but she had been urged also by a vague discomfort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Revolution is conditional upon public discomfort. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I know not whether Graham felt this examination: if he did, he was cautious not to check or discomfort it by any retaliatory look. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Even the high pay cannot reconcile me to the discomforts of my situation. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Social peace is impossible without a rapid amelioration of the needless discomforts of the present time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Pansy