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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

discomfortable en · ADJ

Etymology

Compare Old French desconfortable, equivalent to discomfort + -able or dis- + comfortable.

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Causing discomfort or uneasiness
    • an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity 1886, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare, John Webster:
  2. (obsolete) uncomfortable

Forms

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most discomfortable Degree=Sup lexicographic
more discomfortable Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

discomfortably · discomfortableness