uncomfortable

CEFRA1

/ʌnˈkʌmf.tə.bl̩/

adjective

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In plain English

01
adjective
Not physically comfortable, or causing worry or embarrassment.
02
adjective
Extra detail
Experiencing discomfort mentally and emotionally., Uneasy or anxious.

Examples

His face was red and he felt hot and uncomfortable.
It will make most Americans uncomfortable if you insist on their accepting expensive gifts.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

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Extra meanings

In context

Stop it! You're making her feel uncomfortable!
It was clear that the film's apparent celebration of psychopathy made many audience members uncomfortable.
Sharing a house with them made me uncomfortable.

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

The coaches were filthy outside and did not appear to have been painted or washed for years. Inside there were uncomfortable seats covered with a cane-like material.
1953 July, Allen Rowley, “First Impressions of American Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 492
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.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

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From un- + comfortable.