uncomfortable
English
[edit]Etymology
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From un- + comfortable.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bl̩/, /ʌnˈkʌm.fə.tə.bl̩/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/, /ʌnˈkʌmf.tɚ.bl̩/
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
[edit]uncomfortable (comparative more uncomfortable, superlative most uncomfortable)
- Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
- Antonym: ergonomic
- The class squirmed and fidgeted in the uncomfortable new chairs.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
- 1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 492:
- The coaches were filthy outside and did not appear to have been painted or washed for years. Inside there were uncomfortable seats covered with a cane-like material.
- Experiencing discomfort physically.
- Synonym: ill at ease
- Experiencing discomfort mentally and emotionally.
- Uneasy or anxious.
- Synonym: ill at ease
- Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable.
- Put off or disgusted.
- It was clear that the film's apparent celebration of psychopathy made many audience members uncomfortable.
- Uneasy or anxious.
Usage notes
[edit]Although the word uncomfortable looks (etymonically) like one of its senses could be synonymous with inconsolable, it does not have that sense; the absence of that sense is simply a lexical gap. In parallel, the same is true of comfortable and consolable, as well as comfortability and consolability.
Antonyms
[edit]- (antonym(s) of “all senses”): comfortable
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- discomfortable (obsolete)
Translations
[edit]not comfortable
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experiencing discomfort
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uneasy or anxious
put off or disgusted
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