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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Offering no
comfort .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without comfort
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Examples
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They crossed the Atlantic in comfortless craft and took the serious risk of attempting to secure a foothold in free and fresh Canada.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The announcement made them feel as if they were to be left "comfortless" and forsaken.
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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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