Comfortless
[kʌmfәtlis]
Definition
(a.) Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.
Edited by Abraham
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Forlorn, cheerless, desolate, wretched, miserable.[2]. Inconsolable, disconsolate, woebegone, heart-broken, broken-hearted.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See COMFORTABLE]
Typist: Zamenhof
Examples
- His wearisome cough and his comfortless restlessness have certainly increased. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The trip was a comfortless one for officers and men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Such breakfast as he had, he took at the comfortless public-house where he had parted from Riderhood on the occasion of their night-walk. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Have I not found her friendless, and cold, and comfortless? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Zamenhof