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uncomfortably en · ADV

Etymology

From uncomfortable + -ly or un- + comfortably.

Meanings

1. In an uncomfortable manner.
   • Everyone else shifted uncomfortably as this guy continued his derisive laughter and proclaimed my quest the most idiotic thing he'd heard in his life. 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 131:
   • What I deemed a welcoming community when I moved into it (despite its name), feels uncomfortably different to me after someone from my HOA posted on Nextdoor (which groups members into virtual neighborhoods based on their real addresses) about removing “plantation” from Haile Plantation as a consideration toward residents and visitors who are Black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC). 2020 August 1, Yelena Moroz Alpert, “What my Nextdoor neighbors don’t get about the word ‘plantation’”, in CNN:

Forms

Antonyms

comfortably

Translations (8)

nl ongemakkelijk (in an uncomfortable manner) · ca incòmodament (in an uncomfortable manner) · es incómodamente (in an uncomfortable manner) · fr inconfortablement (in an uncomfortable manner) · pt incomodamente (in an uncomfortable manner) · nl oncomfortabel (in an uncomfortable manner) · gl incomodamente (in an uncomfortable manner) · el άβολα (in an uncomfortable manner)