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uncomfortable
English
Etymology
un- +? comfortable
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?k?mf.t?.b?l/, /?n?k?m.f?.t?.b?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?k?m.f?.t?.b?l/, /?n?k?mf.t?.b?l/
Adjective
uncomfortable (comparative more uncomfortable, superlative most uncomfortable)
- Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
- Experiencing discomfort.
- Uneasy or anxious.
- Put off or disgusted.
Usage notes
Although the word uncomfortable looks (etymonically) like one of its senses could be synonymous with inconsolable, it does not have that sense; the absence of that sense is simply a lexical gap. In parallel, the same is true of comfortable and consolable, as well as comfortability and consolability.
Synonyms
- ill at ease
Antonyms
- comfortable
- ergonomic
Derived terms
- uncomfortableness
- uncomfortably
Translations
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sorrowful
English
Etymology
From Middle English sorweful, from Old English sorhful, sorgful (“full of care; anxious; sorrowful”), from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorrow +? -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol (“careful; anxious”), Norwegian sorgfull (“sorrowful”), Icelandic sorgfullur (“lamentable”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?s??o?f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?s??o?f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?s????f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /?s????f?l/, /?s???f?l/
- Hyphenation: sor?row?ful
Adjective
sorrowful (comparative more sorrowful, superlative most sorrowful)
- (of a person) exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught.
- Producing sorrow; causing grief.
- sorrowful accident
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
- She threw her arms around the Lion's neck and kissed him, patting his big head tenderly. Then she kissed the Tin Woodman, who was weeping in a way most dangerous to his joints. But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.
Synonyms
- mournful, lamentable, grievous
- See also Thesaurus:sad
- See also Thesaurus:lamentable
Translations
Further reading
- sorrowful in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sorrowful in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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