Word Meanings - DISCOMFORTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - LABYRINTHAL
Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian. - OCCASIONALISM
The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body. - DISCOMFORTABLE
1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - LABYRINTHINE
Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal. - COMFORTABLY
In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2. - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - LABYRINTHICI
An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - CAUSTICILY
1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark. - LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
Like or pertaining to a labyrinth. - COMFORT
1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this - LABYRINTHIFORM
Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate. - CAUSATIVELY
In a causative manner. - LABYRINTHIAN
Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal. - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - SAILMAKER
One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n. - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - WIDOW-MAKER
One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak. - MATCHMAKER
1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.