COMFORTLESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comfortless mean? 

• COMFORTLESS (adjective)
  The adjective COMFORTLESS has 1 sense:

1. without comfort

  Familiarity information: COMFORTLESS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMFORTLESS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without comfort

Context example:

a comfortless room

Similar:

uncomfortable (providing or experiencing physical discomfort)

 Context examples 

I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The purposes for which a few shapeless pantries and a comfortless scullery were deemed sufficient at Fullerton, were here carried on in appropriate divisions, commodious and roomy.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

From their pious oasis they looked dreamily out at the desert of life, a place full of stormings and strivings—comfortless, restless, and overshadowed by evil.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Have I not found her friendless, and cold, and comfortless?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows, was enough to make the sound of Lady Russell's carriage exceedingly welcome; and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the Mansion House, or look an adieu to the Cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Emma sat with her as long as she could, to attend her in Mrs. Goddard's unavoidable absences, and raise her spirits by representing how much Mr. Elton's would be depressed when he knew her state; and left her at last tolerably comfortable, in the sweet dependence of his having a most comfortless visit, and of their all missing her very much.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It often grieved her to the heart to think of the contrast between them; to think that where nature had made so little difference, circumstances should have made so much, and that her mother, as handsome as Lady Bertram, and some years her junior, should have an appearance so much more worn and faded, so comfortless, so slatternly, so shabby.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I will read it to you: When my brother left us yesterday, he imagined that the business which took him to London might be concluded in three or four days; but as we are certain it cannot be so, and at the same time convinced that when Charles gets to town he will be in no hurry to leave it again, we have determined on following him thither, that he may not be obliged to spend his vacant hours in a comfortless hotel.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Behind him lay the narrow cell, clay-floored and damp, comfortless, profitless and sordid.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)