Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

discomfortable

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dis-com-fort-able
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Causing discomfort or uneasiness

Obsolete

adj

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity"

Etymology

Compare Old French desconfortable, equivalent to discomfort + -able or dis- + comfortable.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more discomfortable (comparative) most discomfortable (superlative)

Derived Forms

discomfortableness discomfortably

Questions

What does discomfortable mean?: Causing discomfort or uneasiness
Where does discomfortable come from?: Compare Old French desconfortable, equivalent to discomfort + -able or dis- + comfortable.

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