discomfortable love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Causing uneasiness; unpleasant; giving pain; making sad.
  • Uneasy; melancholy; refusing comfort.
  • Causing discomfort; discommodious; uncomfortable.

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

  • adjective obsolete Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad.
  • adjective rare Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Causing discomfort or uneasiness.
  • adjective obsolete uncomfortable

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Compare Old French desconfortable.

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  • And she is good to stand by horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose business is in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to Hecate and the loud-crashing Earth – Shaker, easily the glorious goddess gives great catch, and easily she takes it away as soon as seen, if so she will.

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • After that the sad and discomfortable night had spent it selfe, and the break of day was beginning to appeare; Ancilla the waiting-woman, according as she was instructed by her Lady, went downe and opened the Court doore, and seeming exceedingly to compassionate the Schollers unfortunate night of sufferance, saide unto him.

    The Decameron 2004

  • There followed one of those discomfortable hours well known to well-bred people, when four of them are anxious upon a subject which they must not broach to the fifth, and the fifth becomes aware of this anxiety.

    Over the River 2004

  • I never saw (no, never even in the most horridly stuffy ballroom) such a discomfortable collection of human beings.

    Eothen 2003

  • And she is good to stand by horsemen, whom she will: and to those whose business is in the grey discomfortable sea, and who pray to Hecate and the loud-crashing Earth-Shaker, easily the glorious goddess gives great catch, and easily she takes it away as soon as seen, if so she will.

    Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod

  • But truly I shall be very -- very discomfortable if I eat all this riches.

    Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang

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