Meaning | conducive to or feeling mental discomfort. |
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Examples | - "this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable"
- "the uncomfortable truth"
- "grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye"
- "an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest"
- "the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable"
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Narrower | awkward, ill at ease, uneasy | socially uncomfortable |
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disquieting | Causing mental discomfort |
ill-fitting | not the right size or shape |
self-conscious | excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior |
See also | uneasy | lacking a sense of security or affording no ease / ease or reassurance |
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Opposite | comfortable | Free from stress or conducive to mental ease |
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Spanish | incómodo |
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Nouns | uncomfortableness | embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you |
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uncomfortableness | the state of being tense and feeling pain |