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Definition of Comfortless
1. Adjective. Without comfort. "A comfortless room"
Definition of Comfortless
1. a. Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.
Definition of Comfortless
1. Adjective. Offering no comfort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Comfortless
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Comfortless
Literary usage of Comfortless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1864)
"comfortless superiority.298 Indeed, so little was he regarded by that very
profession of which he was the ..."
2. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"... An Indian Encampment — Council Grove — Rums — An Indian and his Wants — Elk —
A Tempest — Captain Kelly — A comfortless Night. ON the 2ist of May, 1839, ..."
3. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1888)
"A Casual Invitation—A Ludicrous Incident—Politeness of a Policeman—A comfortless
Sunday—An Outrageous Irruption—A Privileged Stare. ..."
4. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"1 answered, ' it was a sad and comfortless sort of striving, to strive with a
belief that we should never overcome.' I told him also, that' Paul, ..."
5. John L. Stoddard's Lectures: Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the by John Lawson Stoddard (1902)
"... had come out unhesitatingly to this comfortless abode to nurse the sick and
teach the children of the Indians. At the conclusion of that first memorable ..."
6. Travels in the Great Western Prairies: The Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and by Thomas Jefferson Farnham (1843)
"... Tempest —Captain Kelly—A comfortless Night. ON the 21st of May,, the author
and sixteen others arrived in the town of Independence, Missouri. ..."
7. Journal [Aug. 1, 1832 to July 17, 1833] by Fanny Kemble (1835)
"Came up to our comfortless quarters at the American; dressed, and dined, and
began finishing my letter to dear , when they brought me in another from her, ..."