单词 | discomfortable |
释义 | discomfortableadj. 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. 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). < adj.c1350 |
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