Word Meanings - UNCOMFORTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position. 2. Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation. The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year. Addison. -- Un*com"fort*a*ble*ness,
Additional info about word: UNCOMFORTABLE
1. Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position. 2. Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation. The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year. Addison. -- Un*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*com"fort*a*bly, adv.
Related words: (words related to UNCOMFORTABLE)
- CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - ACCOUNTANTSHIP
The office or employment of an accountant. - 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. - DISCOMFORT
1. Discouragement. Shak. 2. Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." M. Arnold. Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings. Bp. Hall. - ACCOUNTANCY
The art or employment of an accountant. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - 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. - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - FEELINGLY
In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically. - 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. - FEELER
One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything, - CAUSAL
A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat. - CAUSATIVELY
In a causative manner. - CAUSTICALLY
In a caustic manner. - CAUSATIONIST
One who believes in the law of universal causation. - UNEASY
1. Not easy; difficult. Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott. 2. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed. The soul, uneasy and confined from - ACCOUNTABILITY
The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall. - UNPLEASANTRY
1. Want of pleasantry. 2. A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray. - ACCOUNTABLE
1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - APPOSITION
The state of two nouns or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition , a mode of growth characteristic - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - EXPOSITION
1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or - DECOMPOSITION
1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of - MISFEELING
Insensate. Wyclif. - SEPOSITION
The act of setting aside, or of giving up. Jer. Taylor. - CIRCUMPOSITION
The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn. - ANTEPOSITION
The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.