comfort
verb (used with object)
to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to.
comfortless
-
a word derived from
comfort.
Example Sentences
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What about the fanciness of Douglass’ house, which stands in stark contrast to the comfortless life we’ve seen Brown and Henry living?
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2020
Cleareyed, comfortless, often dazzling, like sun on ice, “Anatomy of a Suicide” follows three generations of women tethered to life by the thinnest possible filament.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2020
Now I am dead you come to me In the moonlight, comfortless; Ah, what would I have given alive To win such tenderness!
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2016
That doesn't diminish the pain and anxiety of the elderly women who now face a comfortless old age.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2014
I was a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mother, for everything that is so comfortless and without end.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
