comfortless

Speech parts

1. comfortless - Adjective

2. comfortless - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

miserable wretched desolate forlorn disconsolate inconsolable cheerless black blue dark harsh unhappy depressed uncomfortable sad
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Antonyms

merry jolly good bright excellent happy
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Phrases with the word

more comfortless less comfortless

Examples

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless. Franz Kafka

Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward. Norman Mailer

Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee any better melody in the April woods at dawn than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch? Robert Bridges

Grim-visaged comfortless Despair. Thomas Gray

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. Lord Byron

Ye patient fields, rejoice! The blessing that ye pray for silently Is come at last; for ye shall no more fade, Nor see your flow'rets droop like famishing babes Upon your comfortless breasts. Hartley Coleridge

Close letter words and terms

comfortingness comfortization comfortize comfortlessly comfortlessness comfortment