discomfort
IPA: dɪskˈʌmfɝt
noun
- Mental or bodily distress.
- Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
verb
- To cause annoyance or distress to.
- (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
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Examples of "discomfort" in Sentences
- But the discomfort is what keeps it rich and interesting.
- But as usual, our discomfort is a relative things – we could be in Buffalo!
- Brendan Donnelly is day-to-day with what he described as discomfort in his left side.
- Some products aim to help with the short-term discomfort of CVS, but none have been tested in large rigorous trials.
- But they really do work and 5 minutes of discomfort is better than limping around for 3 days or being so sore that you wake yourself up when you roll over in your sleep
- Doubtless there's truth in that, but it seems more likely that the discomfort is occasioned by West's implication that sexuality is the very foundation of Christianity.
- Men are better at long-term discomfort and degradation, things like prison and jobs, than we are at extreme, shorter-term bouts of excruciating pain, things like swimming the 'fly for 28 miles, squeezing kids' heads through birth canals, and hangnails.
- An outgrowth of this discomfort is that it has created many conservatives -- who want do such things as to restrict social funding to various early childhood policy programs -- and use the supposed narrowness of IQ differentials over time, (within the various out-groups measured), to bolster their argument.
- The first two graphs of the memo, provided by MSNBC to The Huffington Post, express angst over the idea that the movement could mean "more than just short-term discomfort for Wall Street firms" and has "the potential to have very long-lasting political, policy and financial impacts on the companies in the center of the bullseye."
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