Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Without comfort; destitute of or unattended by any satisfaction or enjoyment.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.

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  • adjective Offering no comfort.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective without comfort

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Examples

  • They crossed the Atlantic in comfortless craft and took the serious risk of attempting to secure a foothold in free and fresh Canada.

    The Conquest of National Fear 1925

  • There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.

    A Study in Scarlet Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • There I stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a comfortless, meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had, considerably more freely than I ought.

    A Study in Scarlet 1887

  • The announcement made them feel as if they were to be left "comfortless" and forsaken.

    The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church 1887

  • In a word, it was precisely the kind of comfortless apartment that a ghost, if ghost there were in the chateau, would single out for its favourite lounge.

    Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821

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