UNCOMFORTABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does uncomfortably mean? 

• UNCOMFORTABLY (adverb)
  The adverb UNCOMFORTABLY has 1 sense:

1. in physical discomfort

  Familiarity information: UNCOMFORTABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCOMFORTABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In physical discomfort

Context example:

she lay on the couch, her body uncomfortably twisted

Antonym:

comfortably (in physical comfort)

Pertainym:

uncomfortable (providing or experiencing physical discomfort)

 Context examples 

Poor Jo blushed till she couldn't blush any redder, and her heart began to beat uncomfortably fast as she thought what she had said.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

His sister, he said, was uncomfortably circumstanced—she had no female companion—and, in the frequent absence of her father, was sometimes without any companion at all.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

In acknowledgement of this question, addressed to him with extraordinary curtness, Mr. Heep, uncomfortably clutching the blue bag he carried, replied that he was pretty well, he thanked my aunt, and hoped she was the same.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I thought Diana very provoking, and felt uncomfortably confused; and while I was thus thinking and feeling, St. John bent his head; his Greek face was brought to a level with mine, his eyes questioned my eyes piercingly—he kissed me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I wish your visit at Northanger may be over before Captain Tilney makes his engagement known, or you will be uncomfortably circumstanced.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Feeling very much ruffled, she went and stood at a quiet window to cool her cheeks, for the tight dress gave her an uncomfortably brilliant color.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"That's true," I said, uncomfortably.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

He didn't like to go into the garage because the work bench was stained where the body had been lying so he moved uncomfortably around the office—he knew every object in it before morning—and from time to time sat down beside Wilson trying to keep him more quiet.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)