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Discomfortable adj.

Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. (Obs.)

Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. (R.) "A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets."

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Etymology of 'Discomfortable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discomfortable" Quotes from Famous Books

... mid-stream; With a horrid list, a frightening lapse from the line, That made me think of legs and a broken spine; Soon, all too soon, Ungainly and forlorn to lie Full in the eye Of the cynical, discomfortable moon That, as I looked, stared from the fading sky, A clown's face flour'd for work. And by and by The wide-winged sunset wanned and waned; The lean night-wind crept westward, chilling and sighing; The poor old hulk remained, Stuck helpless in mid-ebb. ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... the fog of London, in an atmosphere cold and damp, where there is rain enough to drown the fountain, and wind enough to scatter it in the air? Out of the whole twelve months there are scarce twelve days where this bubbling up of water in our city does not look a very discomfortable object. ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCLXXVI. February, 1847. Vol. LXI. • Various