HOW TO PRONOUNCE
uncomfortable
/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
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What does uncomfortable mean?
adjective
- Not comfortable; causing discomfort.
- Experiencing discomfort physically.
- Uneasy or anxious.
More meanings (1)
adjective
- Put off or disgusted.
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IPA pronunciation
/ʌnˈkʌm.fɚ.tə.bl̩/
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“An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you’d asked my advice, I’d have said ‘Leave off at seven’—but it’s too late now.”
In each of these chairs some uncomfortable human being lay drawn up, or stretched out, or writhing from one position to another.
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Marilla felt an uncomfortable conviction that, if she denied the appeal of that look, it would haunt her to her dying day.
It was a way of hers always to want to spring into any fray in which someone was made uncomfortable or unhappy.
The dreadful high collar and tight clothes which are donned all the year round, irrespective of the weather, must be very uncomfortable.