Discomfort vs Uncomfortable - What's the difference?
discomfort | uncomfortable |
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
Not comfortable.
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, title= Experiencing discomfort.
Uneasy or anxious.
Put off or disgusted.
As a noun discomfort
is mental or bodily distress.As a verb discomfort
is to cause annoyance or distress to.As an adjective uncomfortable is
not comfortable.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
* discomfituncomfortable
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.}}