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Definition of comfortless in English: comfortlessadjective ˈkʌmfətlɪsˈkəmfərtləs 1Offering no means of relaxation and pleasure. 不舒适的；不舒畅的 Example sentencesExamples - I believed that such wondrous girls walked around Rome with birds on their heads while I suffered the drab and comfortless interior of boarding school for two whole terms.
- In a comfortless, filthy house, ill-furnished, often neither raintight nor warm, no domestic comfort is possible.
- They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none.
- The air struck chill and comfortless as it breathed upon him.
- See to it, brother, that you do not come to that comfortless place.
- Their dreary humor seemed perfectly suited to the auditorium, with its frayed orange carpeting and comfortless chairs and flickering fluorescent lights.
- We repay them by making them spend short, comfortless, unnatural lives, depriving them of their young who can suffer cruelty and brutal deaths.
- But he could do nothing for the underlying pain that left her separate from the others each night, wrapped tightly in her blankets under the comfortless stars.
- He saw in the eyes of his soldiers that they too felt this defilement of the morning, and the manner in which it overshadowed the remainder of each day until it waned unto comfortless darkness.
- ‘We have struggled along for too long with inadequate facilities, in a base that was cold and comfortless, built to house farm machinery, not a 21st century mountain rescue team,’ he says.
- It is the lighting that effectively simulates a change of scene and space, capturing the confinement of Malvolio in his supposed madness through the shadow of bars on a darkened, comfortless stage.
- After initially living with his brother-in-law, mother and nephew, he moved to a small, comfortless, unheated room in a cheap hotel.
- Shuddering at the thought of the comfortless journey ahead, he started to look around for somewhere to pass the night.
- These are bleak, sad stories set in a comfortless world, and the manner of their telling is accordingly plain (but not simple), as though their author has vowed himself to verbal asceticism in pursuit of a hard truth.
- The ocean looked dead and completely comfortless.
Synonyms gloomy, dreary, dull, dismal, bleak, drab, grim, sombre, dark, dim, dingy, funereal miserable, wretched, joyless, cheerless, unhappy, depressing, disheartening, dispiriting, unwelcoming, uninviting, inhospitable austere, severe, stark, bare, spartan, desolate clinical, institutional, impersonal 2Having or offering nothing that serves to ease feelings or grief or distress. he had left her comfortless Example sentencesExamples - It's difficult to get this comfortless message onto any US bestseller list.
- The religious side didn't offend me - I find it meaningless and comfortless, but it just goes over my head.
- A comfortless, bleak howl at the brutal aspects of relationships, it is the story of four couples falling in love, and then into infidelity and hate.
- Probably his most barren and comfortless portrait of modern British life so far, the movie is inflected with necessary moments of light relief in the form of, for example, a sad-but-true depiction of a working men's club karaoke session.
- I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
- Why were you then comfortless and despondent, when I was escorted by the guards into the jail?
- The spring had been part of her, and its loss had left her empty, comfortless.
Synonyms miserable, broken-hearted, heartbroken, unhappy, sad, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowful, sorrowing, mourning, anguished, distressed, desolate, devastated, despairing, inconsolable, disconsolate, downcast, down, downhearted, dejected, crestfallen, cheerless, depressed, melancholy, morose, gloomy, glum, mournful, doleful, dismal, forlorn, woeful, woebegone, abject, low-spirited, long-faced informal blue, down in the mouth, down in the dumps literary dolorous archaic chap-fallen
Definition of comfortless in US English: comfortlessadjectiveˈkəmfərtləsˈkəmfərtləs 1Offering no means of relaxation and pleasure. 不舒适的；不舒畅的 Example sentencesExamples - See to it, brother, that you do not come to that comfortless place.
- We repay them by making them spend short, comfortless, unnatural lives, depriving them of their young who can suffer cruelty and brutal deaths.
- These are bleak, sad stories set in a comfortless world, and the manner of their telling is accordingly plain (but not simple), as though their author has vowed himself to verbal asceticism in pursuit of a hard truth.
- ‘We have struggled along for too long with inadequate facilities, in a base that was cold and comfortless, built to house farm machinery, not a 21st century mountain rescue team,’ he says.
- Shuddering at the thought of the comfortless journey ahead, he started to look around for somewhere to pass the night.
- The air struck chill and comfortless as it breathed upon him.
- They live in lodgings or tiny, comfortless flats, on a meagre allowance or none.
- Their dreary humor seemed perfectly suited to the auditorium, with its frayed orange carpeting and comfortless chairs and flickering fluorescent lights.
- It is the lighting that effectively simulates a change of scene and space, capturing the confinement of Malvolio in his supposed madness through the shadow of bars on a darkened, comfortless stage.
- He saw in the eyes of his soldiers that they too felt this defilement of the morning, and the manner in which it overshadowed the remainder of each day until it waned unto comfortless darkness.
- I believed that such wondrous girls walked around Rome with birds on their heads while I suffered the drab and comfortless interior of boarding school for two whole terms.
- The ocean looked dead and completely comfortless.
- In a comfortless, filthy house, ill-furnished, often neither raintight nor warm, no domestic comfort is possible.
- After initially living with his brother-in-law, mother and nephew, he moved to a small, comfortless, unheated room in a cheap hotel.
- But he could do nothing for the underlying pain that left her separate from the others each night, wrapped tightly in her blankets under the comfortless stars.
Synonyms gloomy, dreary, dull, dismal, bleak, drab, grim, sombre, dark, dim, dingy, funereal 2Having or offering nothing that serves to ease feelings or grief or distress. he had left her comfortless it's difficult to get this comfortless message onto any bestseller list Example sentencesExamples - A comfortless, bleak howl at the brutal aspects of relationships, it is the story of four couples falling in love, and then into infidelity and hate.
- The religious side didn't offend me - I find it meaningless and comfortless, but it just goes over my head.
- It's difficult to get this comfortless message onto any US bestseller list.
- Why were you then comfortless and despondent, when I was escorted by the guards into the jail?
- The spring had been part of her, and its loss had left her empty, comfortless.
- Probably his most barren and comfortless portrait of modern British life so far, the movie is inflected with necessary moments of light relief in the form of, for example, a sad-but-true depiction of a working men's club karaoke session.
- I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
Synonyms miserable, broken-hearted, heartbroken, unhappy, sad, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowful, sorrowing, mourning, anguished, distressed, desolate, devastated, despairing, inconsolable, disconsolate, downcast, down, downhearted, dejected, crestfallen, cheerless, depressed, melancholy, morose, gloomy, glum, mournful, doleful, dismal, forlorn, woeful, woebegone, abject, low-spirited, long-faced
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