Word Meanings - COMFORTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.

Additional info about word: COMFORTLESS

Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. When all is coldly, comfortlessly costly. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMFORTLESS)

• Desolate
• Bereaved
• forlorn
• forsaken
• comfortless
• deserted
• uninhabited
• desert
• wild
• waste
• bare
• bleak
• lonely
• Inconsolable
• Cheerless
• joyless
• spiritless
• melancholy
• gloomy
• disconsolate
• heartsick
• in dispair

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMFORTLESS)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven

Related words: (words related to COMFORTLESS)

• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• DESOLATE
  1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• FORLORNLY
  In a forlorn manner. Pollok.
• FORLORNNESS
  State of being forlorn. Boyle.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• PLANTERSHIP
  The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies.
• PLANTLESS
  Without plants; barren of vegetation.
• COLONIZER
  One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft.
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.
• NONDEVELOPMENT
  Failure or lack of development.
• LAMINIPLANTAR
  Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.