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What is the adjective for uncomfortable?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs discomfort and uncomfort which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

uncomfortable
  1. Not comfortable.
  2. Experiencing discomfort.
  3. Uneasy or anxious.
  4. Put off or disgusted.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “I am not able to get a decent night's sleep on a bed that is as uncomfortable as this.”
      “The heat in the room had reached an extremely uncomfortable level.”
      “His brash nature would often make those around him feel rather uncomfortable.”
discomfortable
  1. (obsolete) Causing discomfort or uneasiness.
  2. (obsolete) uncomfortable
  3. shameful; such as to bring disgrace upon
  4. Examples:
    1. “Then, suddenly, Ashe was assailed by an inner laughter, hollow and discomfortable.”
      “It made the perspiration stream, and then the dust rose from the road, and the two together caused the most discomfortable grime!”
      “You would really be astonished at the great variety of discomfortable dwelling-places that people build.”
uncomfy
  1. (informal) uncomfortable
  2. Examples:
    1. “Ward's partner, former linebacker Chris Spielman, initially was uncomfy also.”
      “I need to know things will be OK, that it's worth this almighty struggle between comfy and nice, or uncomfy and better.”
      “But is anyone else a little uncomfy with the Academy deciding that certain actors get singled out and others get lumped into a quick montage?”
uncomforting
  1. Not comforting.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The idea of being a slob is uncomforting for me, wearing stretch pants or whatever.”
      “Vernon understood, presently, that not even that evening at Thirion's could give the key to this uncomforting change.”
      “Percy sat through the long and tedious sermon, and listened with impatience to the dreary, uncomforting discourse.”
uncomforted
  1. Not comforted.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It's unbearable to think of a child alone and uncomforted, and I cannot see that the needs of patients with dementia are any different.”
      “Leave us uncomforted by the shaky fiction of anything shared, of any common story.”
      “As for Mary, she embarks on an affair then can't bear to leave the wronged wife uncomforted days later when the husband elopes with a 15-year-old.”
discomforted
discomforting
  1. present participle of discomfort
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The discomforting weight of grief settled heavily upon her shoulders, making it hard to breathe.”
      “Being home alone during a thunderstorm can be discomforting for individuals with astraphobia.”
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