discomfortable

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

discomfortable (comparative more discomfortable, superlative most discomfortable)

1. (obsolete) Causing discomfort or uneasiness
   • 1886, Algernon Charles Swinburne, The Age of Shakespeare, John Webster:

     an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity

2. (obsolete) uncomfortable

Derived terms

• discomfortableness
• discomfortably

References

• “discomfortable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.