uncomfortable

Definition

Examples

The chairs in the waiting room were old and rather uncomfortable.

Word Family

Synonyms

• uneasylacking a sense of security or affording no ease or reassurance
• awkwardcausing inconvenience
• distressingbring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

Collocations

• Easy uncomfortable wooden chair
  describing uncomfortable wooden chair (conducive to or feeling mental discomfort)
• Medium uncomfortable silence during the interview
  describing uncomfortable silence during the interview (conducive to or feeling mental discomfort)
• Hard place executives in an uncomfortable fiduciary position
  to place executives in an uncomfortable fiduciary position, meaning to put into a certain place or abstract location
• Very Hard an uncomfortable truth that exposes systemic hypocrisy
  referring to an uncomfortable truth that exposes systemic hypocrisy