Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

comfortless

/ˈkʌmfəɹtləs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English

Syllables: com-fort-less
IPA: /ˈkʌmfəɹtləs/

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of a person: deprived of comfort; uncomforted.

adj

Of a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.

Example Sentences

"I will nott leave you comfoꝛtleſſe: I will come vnto you."
"[W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]"
"O my ſvveet ſir, nevves fitting to the night, / Blacke, fearefull, comfortleſſe, and horrible."
"The Queene is comfortleſſe, and wee forgetfull / In our long abſence: pray doe not deliuer, / What heere y'haue heard to her."
"The hope I dreamed of was a dream, / Was but a dream; and now I wake / Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, / For a dream's sake."
"Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake."

Etymology

From Middle English comfortles; equivalent to comfort + -less.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: comfortles
Suffix: comfort

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈkʌmfəɹtləs/
British English: /ˈkʌmfətləs/

Inflected Forms

more comfortless (comparative) most comfortless (superlative)

Derived Forms

comfortlessly comfortlessness

Synonyms

bleak dreary cheerless comfortless dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful

Questions

How do you pronounce comfortless?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkʌmfəɹtləs/.
What does comfortless mean?: Of a person: deprived of comfort; uncomforted.
Where does comfortless come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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