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Not conducing to ease or comfort; productive of physical discomfort. Also in figurative context. †Occasionally const. to (a person).
Of a pain, feeling, etc.: characterized by or involving nausea; sickening; uneasy, uncomfortable.
Harsh or disagreeable to the senses. Obsolete. rare.