Uncomfortable
[ʌn'kʌmf(ə)təb(ə)l] or [ʌn'kʌmftəbl]
Definition
(adj.) providing or experiencing physical discomfort; 'an uncomfortable chair'; 'an uncomfortable day in the hot sun' .
(adj.) conducive to or feeling mental discomfort; 'this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable'; 'the uncomfortable truth'; 'grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye'; 'an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest'; 'the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable' .
Typed by Ferris--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
(a.) Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation.
Editor: Maureen
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Disagreeable, displeasing, unpleasant, cheerless, dismal, miserable, unhappy, not comfortable.[2]. Close (as the weather), oppressive.
Inputed by Lilly
Definition
adj. not comfortable causing discomfort or disquiet: awkwardly situated.—n. Uncom′fortableness.—adv. Uncom′fortably.
Edited by Jonathan
Examples
- Bingley was quite uncomfortable; his sisters declared that they were miserable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I was present myself, and I remember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part of myself being disposed of in that way. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- If Napoleon had deemed it best to have continued his journey across the Atlantic to America he would have been compelled to pass several weeks on an uncomfortable sailing vessel. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I am very uncomfortable with my money, because they tell me I have too little for any great scheme of the sort I like best, and yet I have too much. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Lydgate felt uncomfortable under these kindly suppositions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If I didn't care about doing right, and didn't feel uncomfortable when doing wrong, I should get on capitally. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Besides it felt so uncomfortable that he quickly decided that he preferred the shame to the discomfort. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- She was not yet quite able to see him and his charming happy wife together, without feeling uncomfortable. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You are wanting to find out if there is anything uncomfortable for you to do now, only because Mr. Casaubon wished it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You make me feel very uncomfortable, Mary, said Rosamond, with her gravest mildness; I would not tell mamma for the world. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I mention this because it was at the theatre that I began to be made uncomfortable again by Mr. Guppy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The soldiers were already very uncomfortable and very refractory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dissatisfied, and uncomfortable, and--what would it signify to me, being coarse and common, if nobody had told me so! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- If it's too uncomfortable, darling, lie on the other side, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Before we get to our destination we find the wheels themselves beginning to thump and jolt, and the passage becomes more difficult, more uncomfortable, and so much slower. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Will was even more uncomfortable than wondering. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Both looked quite 'calm and firm', and both felt desperately uncomfortable. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I see she is uncomfortable, and I plainly see this is the good reason wherefore. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Emma made no answer, and tried to look cheerfully unconcerned, but was really feeling uncomfortable and wanting him very much to be gone. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I confess it made me uncomfortable. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- To his own surprise Will felt suddenly uncomfortable, and dared not look at her after they had bowed to each other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You know how uncomfortable I feel with her. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It was not in Mr. Bulstrode's nature to comply directly in consequence of uncomfortable suggestions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Without his scrapbooks, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Notwithstanding which, said Mr. Bucket, you get a little doubtful and uncomfortable in your mind about it, having a very tender mind of your own. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Emmy also came off with her Lares--her two pictures--and the party, finally, were, lodged in an exceedingly dear and uncomfortable house at Ostend. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I am under the deepest obligation to you, Mr. Farebrother, said Fred, in a state of uncomfortable surmise. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Very uncomfortable. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I saw him still looking uncomfortable, watching the other cars pass and I stooped to see how the canvas was fastened. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
Edited by Jonathan