Word Meanings - DISCOMFORTABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• 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.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• LABYRINTHAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate; labyrinthian.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• LABYRINTHINE
  Pertaining to, or like, a labyrinth; labyrinthal.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• CAUSATOR
  One who causes. Sir T. Browne.
• LABYRINTHICI
  An order of teleostean fishes, including the Anabas, or climbing perch, and other allied fishes. Note: They have, connected with the gill chamber, a special cavity in which a labyrinthiform membrane is arranged so as to retain water to supply the
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• CAUSTICILY
  1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark.
• LABYRINTHIC; LABYRINTHICAL
  Like or pertaining to a labyrinth.
• COMFORT
  1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this
• LABYRINTHIFORM
  Having the form of a labyrinth; intricate.
• CAUSATIVELY
  In a causative manner.
• LABYRINTHIAN
  Intricately winding; like a labyrinth; perplexed; labyrinthal.
• ANTICAUSODIC
  See ANTICAUSOTIC
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.