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单词 discomfortable
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discomfortableadj.

Brit. /dɪˈskʌmf(ə)təbl/, U.S. /dɪˈskəmfərdəb(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English discountfortable, Middle English–1500s disconfortable, Middle English– discomfortable, 1500s dyscomfortable.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: discomfort v., -able suffix; dis- prefix, comfortable adj.
Etymology: Originally < discomfort v. + -able suffix, after Middle French desconfortable causing discouragement (c1340). Compare earlier comfortable adj. In sense 3 perhaps independently < dis- prefix + comfortable adj., in sense 3b after discomfort v. 4.
1.
a. Causing discouragement, distress, grief, or sorrow; destroying, or tending to destroy, happiness or consolation. Obsolete (in later use passing into sense 3a).In quot. c1350: causing devastation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > causation > [adjective] > causing > bringing into certain state or form
discomfortablec1350
reducta1398
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious
angeeOE
swinkfuleOE
plightlyOE
teenfulOE
contrariousc1320
drefa1325
troublinga1325
despitousa1340
thornya1340
discomfortablec1350
troublablec1374
noyousa1382
noyfulc1384
diseasy1387
angrya1393
painful1395
hackinga1400
annoying?c1400
annoyousc1400
cumbrousc1400
teenc1400
annoyfulc1405
sputousc1420
diseasefula1425
molest?a1425
noying?a1425
noisomea1450
grievingc1450
tedious?1454
troublous1463
noisantc1475
displeasant1481
strouble1488
nuisant1494
noyanta1500
irksome1513
sturting1513
molestious1524
vexatious1534
cumbersome1535
uncommodious1541
spiteful1548
vexing?1548
incommodious1551
molestous1555
diseasing1558
grating1563
pestilent1565
sturtsome1570
molestuousa1572
troublesome1573
murrain1575
discommodable1579
galling1583
spiny1586
unsupportable1586
troubleful1588
plaguey1594
distressingc1595
molestful1596
molesting1598
vexful1598
fretful1603
briery1604
bemadding1608
mortifying1611
tiry1611
distressfula1616
irking1629
angersome1649
disobliging1652
discomforting1654
incomfortable1655
incommode1672
ruffling1680
unconvenient1683
pestifying1716
trying1718
offending1726
bothering1765
pesky1775
weary1785
sturty1788
unaccommodating1790
tiresome1798
werriting1808
bothersome1817
plaguesome1828
pestilential1833
fretsome1834
languorous1834
pesty1834
pestersome1843
nettlesome1845
miserable1850
niggling1854
distempering1855
be-maddeninga1861
nattery1873
nagging1883
pestiferous1890
trouble-giving1893
maddening1896
molestive1905
nuisancy1906
balls-aching?1912
nuisance1922
nattering1949
noodgy1969
dickheaded1991
dickish1991
cockish1996
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxix. 4 (MED) Sharpe arwen of þe miȝtful wyþ coles disconfortables [L. desolatoriis].
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) iv. xx. f. lxviijv Nothyng agreable Hit is to me but ful discomfortable.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xviii. 15 Speake no discomfortable wordes.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 375 We hard nothing of him bot threatning and disconfortable wordis.
a1594 J. White in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1600) III. 288 As ioyfull to me, as discomfortable to them.
a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 374 She said she would write a few words to you..which I prayed her might not be discomfortable.
1820 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 94 She has been writing letter after letter to Derwent, about Hartley, & every discomfortable recollection & anticipation that she could conjure up—..she has completely overset him.
1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles xxiii. 338 He breaks the silence..but it is with an answer more discomfortable than was even the silence itself.
1891 Sat. Rev. 14 Nov. 543/1 Lord Salisbury's perhaps discomfortable remarks.
b. Characterized by lack of happiness or consolation; miserable, sorrowful. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > misery > [adjective] > of conditions or events
wretch1131
wretchedc1200
feeble1297
wrackfulc1311
woefula1393
miserousc1475
miserable?a1513
discomfortablea1535
calamitous1545
tristsum1567
woe1572
untoward1632
a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xii. sig. G.viii The night is of the nature of itselfe verye dyscumfortable and full of feare.
1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xvii. 106 The body thus possessed with the..discomfortable darknes of melancholie.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 232 Though it be the discomfortablest thing in the world, (not to have known Christ...).
a1687 H. More Disc. Script. (1692) xvi. 483 Where they miss of it [sc. the Image of Christ], it is as sad a chance, as Divorce or Exile from our dear Friend; as discomfortable, as close Imprisonment, and seclusion from all Conversation with men.
a1761 S. Walker Christ the Purifier (1794) x. 175 That kind of unbelief is exceedingly discomfortable which..leaves us without thought of God's providence in our troubles.
1885 J. Ruskin Præterita xii. 426 My father having been deploring to Mr. Wardell the discomfortable state of mind I had got into about Adèle.
2. That cannot be comforted; disconsolate, inconsolable. Obsolete.Chiefly with allusion to quot. 1535.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [adjective] > inconsolable
comfortlessc1460
discomfortable1535
uncomfortable1592
unconsolablea1618
inconsolable1677
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit x. 4 She wepte with discomfortable teares [a1382 Wycliffite, E.V. vnremediable teris].
1596 T. Lodge Prosopopeia sig. B5v Weepe discomfortable teares, and I wil mingle my drinke with weeping.
1614 R. Brathwait Schollers Medley 97 Alasse poore louer! and whereto so many fruitlesse wishes, so discomfortable laments, so discordant ecco's of redoubled sighes?
1888 Ld. Tennyson Niobe ii. in Daphne & Other Poems (1891) 353 Proud blasphemies, discomfortable tears, Cease; piteous cries, and beatings of the breast, And gnashing teeth and lamentations cease.
3.
a. Causing physical discomfort or mental uneasiness; lacking in material comfort or convenience. Now somewhat rare.
ΚΠ
1576 H. Gilbert Disc. Discov. New Passage Cataia vi. sig. E.iiijv No man could be able to endure so colde, darke, and discomfortable a Nauigation.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster North-ward Hoe i. sig. B3v Lodge me in some discomfortable vault Where neither Sun nor Moone may touch my sight.
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iv. §2. 267 Neither could Moses forget the length of the way through those discomfortable Deserts.
1710 Short Rules Preparatory to Holy & Virtuous Life 23 The end..is so much the more comfortable, in that it hath been atchieved with discomfortable toils.
1768 Serm. on Humanity & Beneficence iii. 145 Their situation must needs be very discomfortable, while they are forced ‘to lodge without sufficient cloathing, and have not covering in the cold’.
1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 1 Apr. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. iv. 442 Of all discomfortable places, I am inclined to reckon Aldershoot Camp the most so.
1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Feb. 254 Pacing to and fro in his discomfortable house.
1910 W. H. Hudson Shepherd's Life i. 3 Fine days..have certainly been few during this wet and discomfortable one [sc. season] of 1909.
1965 Lawton (Okla.) Constit. 10 Sept. 10/2 Rail service between Providence and Washington was slow and otherwise discomfortable.
b. Designating a person in a state of (mental or physical) discomfort or uneasiness; uncomfortable, uneasy.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adjective]
reigheOE
drofc1000
druvyOE
restlessOE
worya1225
forstraughtc1386
unquertc1390
unsaughtc1390
ill (evil) at easea1400
unrofula1400
unquietc1400
unrestya1413
unquieted?a1425
unrestful?c1425
unpeaceda1475
out of quieta1500
inquiet?1504
uneasya1513
perturbed1538
unquietous?1545
disquieted?1548
astraught1564
astraughted1565
agitate1567
turmoiled1570
disquiet1587
distroubled1590
weltered1590
disturbed1593
twitcheda1594
troublesome1596
stract1598
uncomposed1601
discomposed1603
incomposed1608
uncouth1660
unserene1664
chagrin1665
agitated1684
perturbated1704
disordered1711
perturbate1741
chagrineda1754
nervish1760
uncomfortable1796
funked1831
untranquillized1831
streaked1833
striped1839
discomfortable1844
streaky1848
bothered1851
funked out1859
bebothered1866
disorderly1871
fantod1883
rattled1885
aflap1887
shook1891
dicked-up1967
torqued1967
weirded out1973
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvi. 215 I never saw..in the most horridly stuffy ball room..such a discomfortable collection of human beings.
1900 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 65 604 I made him feel discomfortable, too, with looking at him so scornful!
1970 Van Nuys Valley (Calif.) News 28 June 2 a To find oneself discomfortable after dining reveals..overindulgence.
2003 Times 9 June 18/ We are used to the discomfortable Brown..always remembering that he is not Prime Minister, but ought to be.

Derivatives

disˈcomfortableness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > [noun] > unpleasantness
loathnessc1175
offencec1425
noisomeness1506
unlusta1529
unpleasantness1546
displeasantness1547
discomfortableness1585
unlovelinessa1586
illnessc1595
unwelcome1603
unpleasingness1611
offensiveness1618
injucundity1623
disagreeableness1648
displeasingnessa1652
undelightfulness1653
distastefulness1654
beeishness1674
undesirableness1675
uncomfortableness1677
ungratefulnessa1680
unwelcomeness1682
nastiness1718
unkedness1727
disagreeability1788
unpleasantry1799
unpleasantry1810
grit1876
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xviii. 329 Wearie of the discomfortablenesse of the night.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxvi. sig. Yy5 A death, where the manner could be no comfort to the discomfortablenes of the matter.
1643 W. Slatyer Compl. Christian ii. 126 The discomfortablenesse of hunger and thirst.
1871 S. Powers Muskingum Legends 131 The high-backed perpendicular seats were thoroughly of the American pioneer sort, in their discomfortableness.
1908 Amateur Photographer & Photographic News 8 Sept. 222/2 Wooden tripods can be carried on the cycle, but they're ‘the very deuce’ for discomfortableness and rattliness and awkwardness in fastening.
disˈcomfortably adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > despair, hopelessness > [adverb] > inconsolably
discomfortably?a1425
inconsolably1727
unconsolably1895
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adverb] > in annoying or vexatious manner
noyfully1395
annoyously?c1400
noyously1483
troublously1538
uncommodiously1545
wretchedly1546
irksomely1549
incommodiously1551
troublesomely1591
vexingly1599
cumbersomely1611
vexatiously1642
discomfortably1653
importunely1658
gratingly1683
mortifyingly1748
distressingly1786
gallingly1802
annoyingly1806
peskily1833
pesky1833
tryingly1841
discomfortingly1869
balls-achingly1972
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > [adverb]
unquietly?1518
troubledly1599
disquietly?1608
incomposedly1615
discomposedly1662
disturbedly1731
agitatedly1803
restless1810
disorderly1811
restlessly1847
disquietedly1857
discomfortably1873
inquietly1893
troublously1897
disconcertedly1909
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 154 Þei take sich wiþdrawynge of goostlych swetnesse discumfortably with heuynesse and confusioun of soule.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) ii. f. 20 Clymen hauing spoke..discomfortablely.
1653 J. Bampfeild in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 29 [They] speake very discomfortably of it.
1873 R. Broughton Nancy III. 105 ‘How can I tell?’ reply I, discomfortably.
1907 Daily Mail 3 Sept. The children sat round discomfortably on chairs, with orders not to stir.
2007 S. Rajimwale in A. N. Prasad & N. K. Singh Indian Fiction in Eng. I. xviii. 212 Right through the cruise the narrative cuts rather discomfortably to reveal to us the past of Baby Kochamma and Ammu.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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