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discomfortable, a.|dɪsˈkʌmfətəb(ə)l|
[a. OF. desconfortable (in Godef.), f. desconforter: see discomfort v. and comfortable.]
1. Causing discouragement, distress, grief, or annoyance; destroying, or tending to destroy, comfort or happiness. Obs. or arch. (exc. as in 2).
1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xx. 68 Nothyng agreable . hit is to me but ful discomfortable. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xviii. 15 Speake no discomfortable wordes. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. (1846) I. 375 We hard nothing of him bot threatning and disconfortable wordis. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, iii. ii. 36 Discomfortable cousin! knowest thou not, [etc.]. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 349 As ioyfull to me, as discomfortable to them. 1655Digges Compl. Ambass. 374 She said she would write a few words to you..which I prayed her might not be discomfortable. 1846Trench Mirac. xxiii. (1862) 345 He breaks the silence..but it is with an answer more discomfortable than was even the silence itself. 1891Sat. Rev. 14 Nov. 543/1 Lord Salisbury's perhaps discomfortable remarks.
†b. Marked by absence of comfort or happiness; comfortless, miserable. Obs.
1529More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1180/1 The nyght is, of the nature self, dyscomfortable & ful of feare. 1586Bright Melanch. xvii. 103 The body thus possessed with the discomfortable darknes of melancholie. 1622Donne Serm. cxix. V. 117 Though it be the discomfortablest thing in the world, not to have known Christ.
2. Wanting in material comfort or convenience; causing physical discomfort or uneasiness; positively uncomfortable, comfortless.
1607Dekker Northw. Hoe i. Wks. 1873 III. 17 Lodge me in some discomfortable vault Where neither Sun nor Moone may touch my sight. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. 224 Neither could Moses forget the length of the way through those discomfortable Desarts. 1854Hawthorne Eng. Note Bks. (1883) II. 208 Of all discomfortable places, I am inclined to reckon Aldershott Camp the most so. 1888Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Feb. 254 Pacing to and fro in his discomfortable house.
3. Characterized by, or in a state of, discomfort or uneasiness; uncomfortable, uneasy.
1844Kinglake Eothen (1847) 157, I never saw..in the most horridly stuffy ball room such a discomfortable collection of human beings.
†4. Not to be comforted; disconsolate, inconsolable. Obs. rare.
1535Coverdale Tobit x. 4 She wepte with discomfortable teares. [Wycl., vnremediable teris.]
Hence disˈcomfortableness; disˈcomfortably adv.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 317 A death where the maner could bee no comfort to the discomfortablenesse of the matter. 1585Abp. Sandys Serm. (1841) 369 Weary of the discomfortableness of the night. 1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. (1630) 435 Thy conscience must..inferre the conclusion discomfortably. 1653J. Bampfeild in Nicholas Papers (Camden) II. 29 [They] speake very discomfortably of it. 1873R. Broughton Nancy III. 105 ‘How can I tell?’ reply I, discomfortably. |