英语词汇“comfortless”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

comfortless

/ˈkʌmfətlɪs

adjective

1Offering no means of relaxation and pleasure: a comfortless prison...

I believed that such wondrous girls walked around Rome with birds on their heads while I suffered the drab and comfortless interior of boarding school for two whole terms.
These are bleak, sad stories set in a comfortless world, and the manner of their telling is accordingly plain (but not simple), as though their author has vowed himself to verbal asceticism in pursuit of a hard truth.
‘We have struggled along for too long with inadequate facilities, in a base that was cold and comfortless, built to house farm machinery, not a 21st century mountain rescue team,’ he says.

Synonyms

gloomy, dreary, dull, dismal, bleak, drab, grim, sombre, dark, dim, dingy, funereal;

miserable, wretched, joyless, cheerless, unhappy, depressing, disheartening, dispiriting, unwelcoming, uninviting, inhospitable;

austere, severe, stark, bare, spartan, desolate;

clinical, institutional, impersonal

2Having or offering nothing that serves to ease feelings or grief or distress: he had left her comfortless...

A comfortless, bleak howl at the brutal aspects of relationships, it is the story of four couples falling in love, and then into infidelity and hate.
The religious side didn't offend me - I find it meaningless and comfortless, but it just goes over my head.
Probably his most barren and comfortless portrait of modern British life so far, the movie is inflected with necessary moments of light relief in the form of, for example, a sad-but-true depiction of a working men's club karaoke session.

Synonyms

miserable, broken-hearted, heartbroken, unhappy, sad, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowful, sorrowing, mourning, anguished, distressed, desolate, devastated, despairing, inconsolable, disconsolate, downcast, down, downhearted, dejected, crestfallen, cheerless, depressed, melancholy, morose, gloomy, glum, mournful, doleful, dismal, forlorn, woeful, woebegone, abject, low-spirited, long-faced

informal blue, down in the mouth, down in the dumps

literary dolorous

archaic chap-fallen

单词	comfortless
释义	comfortless /ˈkʌmfətlɪs / adjective 1Offering no means of relaxation and pleasure: a comfortless prison... I believed that such wondrous girls walked around Rome with birds on their heads while I suffered the drab and comfortless interior of boarding school for two whole terms. These are bleak, sad stories set in a comfortless world, and the manner of their telling is accordingly plain (but not simple), as though their author has vowed himself to verbal asceticism in pursuit of a hard truth. ‘We have struggled along for too long with inadequate facilities, in a base that was cold and comfortless, built to house farm machinery, not a 21st century mountain rescue team,’ he says. Synonyms gloomy, dreary, dull, dismal, bleak, drab, grim, sombre, dark, dim, dingy, funereal; miserable, wretched, joyless, cheerless, unhappy, depressing, disheartening, dispiriting, unwelcoming, uninviting, inhospitable; austere, severe, stark, bare, spartan, desolate; clinical, institutional, impersonal 2Having or offering nothing that serves to ease feelings or grief or distress: he had left her comfortless... A comfortless, bleak howl at the brutal aspects of relationships, it is the story of four couples falling in love, and then into infidelity and hate. The religious side didn't offend me - I find it meaningless and comfortless, but it just goes over my head. Probably his most barren and comfortless portrait of modern British life so far, the movie is inflected with necessary moments of light relief in the form of, for example, a sad-but-true depiction of a working men's club karaoke session. Synonyms miserable, broken-hearted, heartbroken, unhappy, sad, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowful, sorrowing, mourning, anguished, distressed, desolate, devastated, despairing, inconsolable, disconsolate, downcast, down, downhearted, dejected, crestfallen, cheerless, depressed, melancholy, morose, gloomy, glum, mournful, doleful, dismal, forlorn, woeful, woebegone, abject, low-spirited, long-faced informal blue, down in the mouth, down in the dumps literary dolorous archaic chap-fallen
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