uncomfortable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective conducive to or feeling mental discomfort
    • this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable
    • the uncomfortable truth
    • grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye
    • an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest
    • the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable
  2. adjective providing or experiencing physical discomfort
    • an uncomfortable chair
    • an uncomfortable day in the hot sun

WordNet

Un*com"fort*a*ble adjective
Definitions
  1. Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
  2. Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation.
    The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year. Addison.
    -- Un*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*com"fort*a*bly, adv.

Webster 1913