Comfortless

  

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Comfortless

Definition: Comfortless

Comfortless

Adjective

1. 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: Comfortless

Synonyms: desolate, disconsolate, inconsolable, miserable, wretched. (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Comfortless

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Familiar Quotations: Comfortless

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Usage Frequency: Comfortless

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%2176,261

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Comfortless

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

neconsolat (disconsolate, inconsolable, uncomforted, unconsoled), incomod (awkward, clumsy, incommodious, inconvenient, tedious, troublesome, uncomfortable, uneasy, unhandy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неуютный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neutešan (brokenhearted, desolate, disappointing, disconsolate, inconsolable), neudoban (uncomfortable). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

incómodo (awkward, cumbersome, ill at ease, incommodious, inconvenient, uncomfortable). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

okomfortabel, obekväm (incommodious, inconvenient, uncomfortable). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukrainian

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không đủ tiện nghi tẻ nhạt, bu"n tẻ bị bỏ rơi không ai an ủi, bất tiện (discomfortable, inconvenient, uncomfortable). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

anniddos (leaky), anniddan (miserable). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Comfortless

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Medieval Latin700-1500

disconsolatus,. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Comfortless

LanguageDateSourceJohn Chapter 14, Verse 18
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintOuk afhsw umaV orfanouV ercomai proV umaV
Latin405VulgateNon relinquam vos orfanos veniam ad vos
Old English990West SaxonNe læte ic eow stepchild. ic cumeto eow.
Middle English1395WyclifY schal not leeue you fadirles, Y schal come to you.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleI will not leave you comfortlesse: but will come vnto you.
Jacobean English1611King JamesI will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Victorian English1833WebsterI will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you.
Basic English1964OgdenI will not let you be without a friend: I am coming to you.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Comfortless

LanguageJohn 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 。
CroatianNeæu vas ostaviti kao siroèad; doæi æu k vama.
DanishJeg vil ikke efterlade eder faderløse; jeg kommer til eder.
DutchIk zal u geen wezen laten; Ik kom weder tot u.
FinnishEn minä jätä teitä orvoiksi; minä tulen teidän tykönne.
FrenchJe ne vous laisserai pas orphelins, je viendrai vous.
GermanIch will euch nicht Waisen lassen; ich komme zu euch.
HungarianNem hagylak titeket árvákul; eljövök ti hozzátok.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariKalian tak akan Kutinggalkan sendirian sebagai yatim piatu. Aku akan kembali kepadamu.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaTiadalah 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.
NorwegianJeg vil ikke efterlate eder farløse; jeg kommer til eder.
RumanianNu vq voi lqsa orfani, Mq voi kntoarce la voi.
RussianоЕ ПУФБЧМА ЧБУ УЙТПФБНЙ; ТЙ"Х Л ЧБН.
Shuar¶ Mitiaikia aitkiasnak ikiukchattajrume. Atumíin atak Tátatjai.
SpanishNo os dejaré huérfanos; volveré a vosotros.
Swahili"Sitawaacha ninyi yatima; nitakuja tena kwenu.
SwedishJag 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.

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Rhyming with "Comfortless"

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)

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Anagrams: Comfortless

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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