adjective
-
not comfortable
-
feeling or causing discomfort or unease; disquieting
Other Word Forms
- uncomfortableness noun
- uncomfortably adverb
Etymology
Origin of uncomfortable
First recorded in 1585–95; un- 1 + comfortable
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“Markets are very uncomfortable, uncertain, volatile and unpredictable.”
“There was no planet where you’d ever be asked to do anything you were uncomfortable with,” Fanning says.
From Los Angeles Times
It was "uncertain and uncomfortable, you never want to be in government like that," they added.
From BBC
"The person who knocked was quite young, in his 20s, and they just asked for Kimberley and looked quite uncomfortable," she said.
From BBC
Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
