Discomfortable vs Uncomfortable - What's the difference?
discomfortable | uncomfortable |
(obsolete) Causing discomfort or uneasiness.
(obsolete) uncomfortable
Not comfortable.
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, title= Experiencing discomfort.
Uneasy or anxious.
Put off or disgusted.
As adjectives the difference between discomfortable and uncomfortable
is that discomfortable is causing discomfort or uneasiness while uncomfortable is not comfortable.discomfortable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. — Thackeray.
Derived terms
* discomfortableness (Webster 1913)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.}}