Disagreeable vs Uncomfortable - What's the difference?
disagreeable | uncomfortable | Synonyms |
Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
Something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
Not comfortable.
*, chapter=15
, title= Experiencing discomfort.
Uneasy or anxious.
Put off or disgusted.
Disagreeable is a synonym of uncomfortable.
As adjectives the difference between disagreeable and uncomfortable
is that disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable while uncomfortable is not comfortable.As a noun disagreeable
is something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.disagreeable
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- (rfdate) Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and teach nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. --Udall.
- (rfdate) That which is disagreeable''' to one is many times agreeable to another, or '''disagreeable in a less degree. --Wollaston.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "disagreeable" is often applied: odor, smell, taste, sensation, thing, person, man, woman, duty, work, feeling, manner, experience, effect, feature, business, surprise, job.Antonyms
* agreeableNoun
(en noun)- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
uncomfortable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
