comfort
verb (used with object)
to soothe, console, or reassure; bring cheer to.
comfortlessness
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a word derived from
comfort.
Example Sentences
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As they talked, Mrs. Field again chilled with the cold gray comfortlessness of it all; to be sick in such a place!
From Wayside Courtships by Garland, Hamlin
Mr. Parham-Carter's room looked very warm and home-like after the comfortlessness of the damp lamp-lit streets.
From None Other Gods by Benson, Robert Hugh
The filth and comfortlessness that prevail in the houses themselves it is impossible to describe.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence
At his words, the picture of the little shack—her home now—as it had looked the first time she saw it in all its comfortlessness, its untidy squalor, rose before her eyes.
From The Land of Promise by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Certainly there are innumerable cases in which infirmity, care, fatigue, and the comfortlessness and penury of the humble dwelling, effectually plead for a large allowance of this balm of oblivion.
From An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by Foster, John
