Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Experiencing physical discomfort.
- adjective Ill at ease; uneasy.
- adjective Causing anxiety; disquieting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not comfortable; affording no comfort; causing bodily or mental discomfort; giving uneasiness; disquieting: as, an uncomfortable seat or condition.
- Disagreeably situated; uneasy; ill at ease: as, to feel uncomfortable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Feeling discomfort; uneasy.
- adjective Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
comfortable . - adjective Experiencing
discomfort . - adjective
Uneasy oranxious . - adjective
Put off ordisgusted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective providing or experiencing physical discomfort
- adjective conducive to or feeling mental discomfort
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Examples
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Tim Chambers uses the word uncomfortable to describe his first meeting with former Immaculata University women's basketball coach Cathy Rush.
Moving the Chains 2011
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They have striven to make this label uncomfortable, and they are reaping the fruits of that.
What is a "real woman"? x00c5;ka 2009
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Sometimes this is done designedly: as by Mr. Snarling, who by long practice has attained the power of hinting and insinuating, in the course of a forenoon call, as many unpleasant things as may germinate into a crop of ill-tempers and worries which shall make the house at which he called uncomfortable all that day.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various
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It's frightening to realize that there are apparently a sizable number of people out there afraid "uncomfortable" is just a code word because others disagree with them.
"How do I manage this, a weekend -- during the GOP convention -- with a Euro social democrat and Karl Popper's son? Avoidance? Giant underpants?" Ann Althouse 2008
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A few laughed with us, but many of the newer faces wore an expression of uncomfortable amusement.
Daniel Dowd: Mortar Hour Daniel Dowd 2011
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A few laughed with us, but many of the newer faces wore an expression of uncomfortable amusement.
Daniel Dowd: Mortar Hour Daniel Dowd 2011
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I guess what makes me uncomfortable is the public, unrepentant nature of this kind of thing.
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That you would find such an experience uncomfortable is scarcely surprising.
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So often the discussion it seems to get derailed into a debate on whether people "should" be offended by an incident (with the usual claims that anyone who isn't prudish should be just fine with images of sexy women or discussion of women's sexiness), rather than acknowledging that making a subset of your audience uncomfortable is a problem.
Attracting Women to Rails Peggy 2009
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So you'd better be entertaining me while you're making me think in uncomfortable ways.
Dollhouse julieandrews 2009
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