Synonyms for comfortless

Grammar : Adj

Spell : kuhm-fert

Phonetic Transcription : ˈkʌm fərt

Définition of comfortless

Origin : late 13c., conforten "to cheer up, console," from Old French conforter "to comfort, to solace; to help, strengthen," from Late Latin confortare "to strengthen much" (used in Vulgate), from Latin com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + fortis "strong" (see fort). Change of -n- to -m- began in English 14c. Related: Comforted; comforting.

adj uncomfortable

Example sentences :

It seemed hard to leave her to such a lonely, comfortless home.
Extract from : « The Tenant of Wildfell Hall » by Anne Bronte

For they were the only gods that were left, and a comfortless set of gods they were!
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

He remembered how bare and comfortless he had thought the room.
Extract from : « The Portygee » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

I rose, but did not wish to leave him comfortless in 298 the rising wind.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Shining Light » by Norman Duncan

A winter mining-camp is the most bleak and comfortless of places.
Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine

They passed a comfortless night, and the storm detained them all the next day.
Extract from : « The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago » by John S. C. Abbott

The whole interior of the place appeared bare and comfortless.
Extract from : « The New Tenant » by E. Phillips Oppenheim

Very few of you who read this have ever seen a place so comfortless or so poor.
Extract from : « Nine Little Goslings » by Susan Coolidge

This was a more cold, dreary and comfortless place than No. 7.
Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse

It even brought some degree of comfort to the comfortless on board the gun-boat.
Extract from : « Under the Waves » by R M Ballantyne

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