Synonyms for comfortless
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Desolate — of a thing, offering no comfort; uncomforting
desolate, bleak, dreary, forlorn, disconsolate, cheerless, uncomfortable, miserable, depressing, grim, wretched, dismal, woeful, joyless, woebegone, broken-hearted, solitary, moody, dire, gloomy, melancholy, distressing
Definitions
- adj. 1
Of a thing: offering no comfort; uncomforting.
Example sentences
- uncomfortable Tom felt very uncomfortable about the whole thing.
- bleak To some people, Algeria's future is looking bleak.
- dreary I've got to go to another dreary meeting tomorrow.
- disconsolate A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| comfortless | rising | |
| uncomfortable | rising | |
| bleak | rising | |
| dreary | rising | |
| disconsolate | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- grim1, dire1
- 5 letters
- moody2, bleak1
- 6 letters
- gloomy2, dismal2, dreary2, woeful2
- 7 letters
- forlorn2, joyless
- 8 letters
- solitary4, wretched2, desolate3
- 9 letters
- miserable4, cheerless, woebegone3
- 10 letters
- depressing3, melancholy4
- 11 letters
- distressing3
- 12 letters
- disconsolate
- 13 letters
- uncomfortable5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (moody2 = 2 syllables).