Meaning

2 senses

  1. To cause annoyance or distress to.

  2. (obsolete)To discourage; to deject.

Examples

24 sentences

  1. Tom hasn't complained of any discomfort.

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  2. Are you experiencing any discomfort?

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  3. Are you feeling any discomfort?

    Ви відчуваєте якийсь дискомфорт? — Ahha

    ruВы чувствуете какой-либо дискомфорт? — marafon

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  4. Tom is experiencing a small discomfort.

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  5. I was in an agony of discomfort.

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Origin

From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter, equivalent to dis- + com

From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter, equivalent to dis- + comfort.

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Forms

discomforts, discomforting, discomforted, discomforted
Base formdiscomfort · to discomfort
3rd person singulardiscomforts
Present participlediscomforting
Past simplediscomforted
Past participlediscomforted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theydiscomfort
he, she, itdiscomforts

Past simpleLesson

all personsdiscomforted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave discomforted
he, she, ithas discomforted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill discomfort

Word family

2 related words
Relateddiscomfit
Deriveddiscomforter

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
discoA2discolordiscombobulatedisconcertdisconnectB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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