discomfort
Americannoun
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an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
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anything that is disturbing to or interferes with comfort.
verb (used with object)
noun
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an inconvenience, distress, or mild pain
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something that disturbs or deprives of ease
verb
Other Word Forms
- discomfortable adjective
- discomfortingly adverb
Etymology
Origin of discomfort
First recorded in 1300–50; (for the verb) Middle English discomforten “to discourage, pain,” from Anglo-French descomforter “to sadden, grieve”; equivalent to dis- 1 + comfort; noun derivative of verb
Example Sentences
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"We embrace a certain amount of discomfort and hardship and suffering."
From BBC
Whether it was her inexperience that caused her discomfort or her discomfort that led to her inexperience remained to be proven.
From Literature
Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.
From Salon
In his memo to employees on Feb. 13, Wasserman said he was “deeply sorry that my past personal mistakes have caused you so much discomfort.”
For much of the last decade, Mustaine has experienced significant discomfort since the cartilage in the tips of his fingers has worn away from decades of frenzied playing, causing the bones to scrape together.
From Los Angeles Times
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