uncomfortableadjective
uk/ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bəl/us/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.t̬ə/B1 not feeling comfortable and pleasant, or not making you feel comfortable and pleasant:
I've eaten so much, I actually feel uncomfortable.
These shoes are really uncomfortable.
C1 slightly embarrassed, or making you feel slightly embarrassed:
an uncomfortable silence
More examples
- We were getting more and more uncomfortable as we jogged along in the back of the truck.
- It was uncomfortable walking barefoot on the shingly beach.
- Jean felt uncomfortable but managed to force a strained smile.
- It was very uncomfortable lying on the hospital bed with my legs suspended in the air.
- The boy looked uncomfortable and out of place among the adults.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Comfortable and uncomfortable
- airy
- be in your element idiom
- be like a fish out of water idiom
- be out of your element idiom
- be/feel at home idiom
- civilization
- comfort zone
- comfortable
- comfortably
- comfy
- cosily
- cosiness
- cosy
- curl
- ergonomics
- hunker down
- lived in idiom
- nestle
- primitive
- settle
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Anxious and worried
uncomfortably
adverb uk/ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bli//ʌnˈkʌmf.tɚ.bli/
C1
I was warm but not uncomfortably so.