Discomfort vs Disconcerting - What's the difference?
discomfort | disconcerting |
Mental or bodily distress.
Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
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, title= To cause annoyance or distress to.
(obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
* Shakespeare
Tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
As a noun discomfort
is mental or bodily distress.As a verb discomfort
is to cause annoyance or distress to.As an adjective disconcerting is
tending to cause discomfort, uneasiness or alarm; unsettling; troubling; upsetting.discomfort
English
Noun
(en noun)Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
Verb
(en verb)- His funeral shall not be in our camp, / Lest it discomfort us.
Usage notes
As a verb, the unrelated term discomfit is often used instead, largely interchangeably, though this is proscribed by some as an error, (term) originally meaning “destroy”, not “distress”.Derived terms
* discomforterSee also
* discomfitdisconcerting
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Even with a safety harness, losing one's grip that high up is disconcerting .
- "You must admit," he remarked, "that up to now our conversation has hardly proceeded along conventional lines. I am a complete stranger to you; another man who is a complete stranger to me speaks to you while we're at tea. You inform me that I shall probably have to kill him in the near future. The statement is, I think you will agree, a trifle disconcerting ."