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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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 Robert Hugh Benson
So that even in the sunshine the crude comfortlessness and inferior savagery of the place only repelled her.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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 Florence Kelley
As they talked, Mrs. Field again chilled with the cold gray comfortlessness of it all: to be sick in such a place!
From Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
She invited the farmer laird to enter that charmed ring, which, of course, he could not help contrasting with the loneliness and comfortlessness of Bourhope.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
