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Definition: Comfortless |
ComfortlessAdjective1. Without comfort; "a comfortless room". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "comfortless" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Synonyms: ComfortlessSynonyms: desolate, disconsolate, inconsolable, miserable, wretched. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Disconsolate; unconsolable, inconsolable; forlorn, comfortless, desolate, desole, sick at heart; soul sick, heart sick; au desespoir; in despair; lost. |
Pain | Distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Author | Quotation |
William Hazlitt | Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| "Comfortless" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Comfortless" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 21 | 76,261 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "comfortless"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i trishtuar (blue, cheerless, dark, disappointed, disappointing, doleful, down, dreary, elegiac, funereal, gloomy, grievous, joyless, lugubrious, melancholy, minor, mirthless, miserable, mopish, mournful, pensive, rueful, sad, tristful, unhappy, vapoury, wailful, wan, wistful, woebegone, woeful, woesome), i parehatshëm (incommodious, uncomfortable, uneasy, unhandy), i pangushëlluar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خال من أسباب الراحة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | неутешим (desolate, disconsolate, inconsolable), неудобен (awkward, bulky, cramped, embarrassing, incommodious, inconvenient, invidious, self conscious, uncomfortable, unhandy), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | bezútìšný (bleak, cheerless, desolate, dreary, gaunt, grim, miserable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sans confort. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trostlos (bleak, bleakly, cheerless, comfortlessly, desolate, desolately, disconsolate, dismal, dismally, dreary, grimly, hopeless, inconsolable, miserable, wretched), ohne trost, ohne komfort. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απαρηγόρητοσ (disconsolate, hopeless, inconsolable, unconsoled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kényelmetlen (awkward, cramp, cramped, cumbersome, inconvenient, rough, uncomfortable, uneasy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senza conforto, senza comodit , scomodo (awkward, inconvenient, uncomfortable, uneasy, unhandy, unintimate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 侘しい (dreary, lonely, miserable, shabby, wretched), 佗しい (dreary, lonely, miserable, shabby, wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | わびしい (dreary, lonely, miserable, shabby, wretched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | mee-houyr. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omfortlesscay sem conforto, desconsolado (disconsolate, forsaken, mirthless), abandonado (abandoned, abandonee, alone, bereaved, bereft, derelict, forlorn, forsaken, godforsaken, helpless, lonely, lorn, love-lorn, outcast, sole, stranded, unattended, unattending, uncared-for, unrelieved, unused, waste). (various references) neconsolat (disconsolate, inconsolable, uncomforted, unconsoled), incomod (awkward, clumsy, incommodious, inconvenient, tedious, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unhandy). (various references) неуютный. (various references) neutešan (brokenhearted, desolate, disappointing, disconsolate, inconsolable), neudoban (uncomfortable). (various references) incómodo (awkward, cumbersome, ill at ease, incommodious, inconvenient, uncomfortable). (various references) okomfortabel, obekväm (incommodious, inconvenient, uncomfortable). (various references) rahatsız (ailing, bad, constrained, diseased, disturbed, ill, in bad health, incommodious, indisposed, out of sorts, poorly, queer, seedy, sick, troubled, uncomfortable, uneasy, unrestful, unwell, worrisome), konforsuz, kasvetli (black, bleak, cheerless, depressive, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, funereal, gloomy, grave, howling, lugubrious, melancholy, mopish, muzzy, pitchy, sable, sad, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, waste), huzursuz edici. (various references) сумний (afflictive, baleful, cheerless, damp, dark, deplorable, despondent, dismal, doleful, drear, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, elegiac, elegiacal, grievous, heavy-hearted, joyless, lamentable, lugubrious, maddening, melancholy, mournful, overcast, plaintive, regrettable, rueful, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, wailful, wan), неутішний, незручний (awkward, incommodious, inconvenient, objectionable, uncomfortable, uneasy), незатишний. (various references) không đủ tiện nghi tẻ nhạt, bu"n tẻ bị bỏ rơi không ai an ủi, bất tiện (discomfortable, inconvenient, uncomfortable). (various references) anniddos (leaky), anniddan (miserable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | disconsolatus,. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 14, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ouk afhsw umaV orfanouV ercomai proV umaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Non relinquam vos orfanos veniam ad vos |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Ne læte ic eow stepchild. ic cumeto eow. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Y schal not leeue you fadirles, Y schal come to you. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | I will not leave you comfortlesse: but will come vnto you. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | I will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 14, Verse 18 |
| Cebuano | ¶ "Dili ko kamo pagabiyaan na daw mga ilo; ako mobalik ra kaninyo. |
| Chinese | 我 不 ' 下 們 為 孤 ' 、 我 必 到 們 這 裡 來 。 |
| Croatian | Neæu vas ostaviti kao siroèad; doæi æu k vama. |
| Danish | Jeg vil ikke efterlade eder faderløse; jeg kommer til eder. |
| Dutch | Ik zal u geen wezen laten; Ik kom weder tot u. |
| Finnish | En minä jätä teitä orvoiksi; minä tulen teidän tykönne. |
| French | Je ne vous laisserai pas orphelins, je viendrai vous. |
| German | Ich will euch nicht Waisen lassen; ich komme zu euch. |
| Hungarian | Nem hagylak titeket árvákul; eljövök ti hozzátok. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kalian tak akan Kutinggalkan sendirian sebagai yatim piatu. Aku akan kembali kepadamu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tiadalah Aku akan meninggalkan kamu piatu, Aku datang kepadamu kelak. |
| Maori | ¶ E kore koutou e waiho pani e ahau: e haere mai ano ahau ki a koutou. |
| Norwegian | Jeg vil ikke efterlate eder farløse; jeg kommer til eder. |
| Rumanian | Nu vq voi lqsa orfani, Mq voi kntoarce la voi. |
| Russian | оЕ ПУФБЧМА ЧБУ УЙТПФБНЙ; ТЙ"Х Л ЧБН. |
| Shuar | ¶ Mitiaikia aitkiasnak ikiukchattajrume. Atumíin atak Tátatjai. |
| Spanish | No os dejaré huérfanos; volveré a vosotros. |
| Swahili | "Sitawaacha ninyi yatima; nitakuja tena kwenu. |
| Swedish | Jag skall icke lämna eder faderlösa; jag skall komma till eder. |
| Uma | ¶ "Uma-koi kupalahii jadi' ilu. Nculii' moto-a mpai' tumai hi koi'. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Words rhyming with "comfortless" (pronounced 'Com"fort*less'): Accentless, Actionless, Actless, Afflictionless, Ageless, Aidless, Aimless, Airless, Aisless, Ambitionless, Anchorless, Answerless, Approachless, Apronless, Armless, Artless, Assistless, Authorless, Avoidless, Awless, Awnless, Backless, Badgeless, Barkless, Baseless, Bashless, Bateless, Beaconless, Beamless, Beardless, Beautiless, Beneficeless, Birthless, Bitless, Blameless, Blemishless, Bless, Blissless, Bloodless, Bloomless, Blossomless, Blotless, Blushless, Boastless, Bodiless, Boneless, Bonnetless, Bookless, Bootless, Boteless. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-l-m-o-o-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: motorless. | |
-3 letters: colessor, comforts, corslets, costrels, creosols, crosslet, footlers, footless, foremost, formless, roofless, rootless, scooters, tremolos. | |
-4 letters: closers, closest, closets, coeloms, colters, comfort, coolers, coolest, cooters, cormels, corsets, corslet, costers, costrel, creosol, cresols, escorts, florets, foetors, footers, footler, footles, forests, formols, fosters, frescos, lectors, lofters, loosest, looters, lotoses, merlots, molests, molters, mooters, morsels. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-l-m-o-o-r-s-s-t" | |
+4 letters: comfortableness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Bible Trace 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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