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uncomfortable Definition

un·com·fort·able (-kum′fərt ə bəl)

adjective

  1. not comfortable; feeling discomfort
  2. not pleasant or agreeable; causing discomfort
  3. ill at ease

  • uncombed
  • uncombinable
  • uncombined
  • uncomely
  • uncomforted
uncomfortable Related Forms
un·com′·fort·able·ness noun un·com′·fort·ably adverb
uncomfortable Synonyms

uncomfortable

modif.

  1. Troubled in body or mind

    distressed, ill at ease, uneasy, embarrassed, nervous, disturbed, pained, miserable, wretched, restless, fretted, annoyed, angry, in pain, smarting, suffering, discomposed, disquieted, discomfited, upset, vexed, on pins and needles, weary, tired, fatigued, exhausted, strained, worn, aching, griped, wracked, on the wrack, sore, galled, stiff, chafed, cramped, agonized, hurt, anguished.

    Antonyms quiet*, rested*, happy*. *

  2. Causing discomfort

    ill-fitting, awkward, annoying, embarrassing, irritating, galling, wearisome, vexatious, bothersome, difficult, hard, thorny, troublesome, harsh, grievous, dolorous, bitter, excruciating, afflictive, distressing, distressful, torturing, painful, agonizing, disagreeable.

    Antonyms easy*, pleasant*, grateful.

uncomfortable Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • distinctly: Where Welcome To Sarajevo leaves me distinctly uncomfortable is in its politics.
  • decidedly: After that date you could be decidedly uncomfortable about the changing dynamic in money matters generally.
  • tad: I am a tad uncomfortable with the binding recommendation idea.
  • visibly: It is also an approach about which Javier Solana was visibly uncomfortable.
  • slightly: Most patients consider the test to be only slightly uncomfortable.
  • vaguely: They were pretty painless, just uncomfortable, but I was slightly suspicious as I had felt vaguely uncomfortable all day.

Preposition: with

  • notion: Moreover, Americans tend to be uncomfortable with the notion of superiority, believing strongly in egalitarianism.

Infinitive complement

  • wear: Worn on a hot evening at a state occasion, such dresses must have been uncomfortable to wear.
  • watch: But I found it so uncomfortable to watch, I had to close my eyes and go to sleep.

Modifies a noun

  • viewing: It just makes for some kind of subtle uncomfortable viewing.
  • truth: That reveals an uncomfortable truth about the local Labor Party.
  • sensation: Symptoms, she argued, were not just objective reports of deficits of function or uncomfortable sensations.
  • glare: Minimize any uncomfortable glare from excessive areas of hard surfacing in bright sunshine by careful planting, screening and choice of hard surface materials.
  • feeling: Then the clouds rise and I get uncomfortable feelings about health and safety.
  • silence: There was a moment or two of uncomfortable silence.

Used with adjective complement

  • feel: Years ago many women felt uncomfortable asking their GP's to give them a smear.
  • seem: He is a private person, someone who seems uncomfortable in a large group, " Meyer writes.
  • appear: Does he move in an irregular way or appears uncomfortable?
  • look: On several occasions he's looked deeply uncomfortable; with the sound, with the audience, with himself.
  • become: There was still no improvement, in fact he became more uncomfortable.
uncomfortable Quotes

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

—Shaw, George Bernard

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

—Angelou, Maya originally MayaJohnson