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Definition of comfortless:
Synonyms:
elegiac, sunless, darkening, funereal, desolate, Cimmerian, uncomfy, dire, gray, harsh, cold, forlorn, black, wretched, morose, discomforting, saturnine, dark, cloudy, lonesome, depressive, solemn, chill, murky, tenebrific, morbid, dreich, uncomfortable, depressing, plutonian, sullen, godforsaken, cheerless, glum, lugubrious, tenebrous, disconsolate, miserable, sepulchral, uncomforting, drear, comfort, dreary, bleak, somber, lonely, dismal.
Usage examples:
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Torn from his offspring in the eve of life, Torn from the embraces of his tender wife, Sole, and all comfortless, he wastes away Old age, untimely posting ere his day.
- "The Odyssey of Homer", Homer, translated by Alexander Pope. -
His face hardened a trifle as he recalled the agony of the march back through the snowy wilderness, and the weeks he had afterward spent, unable to set his foot to the ground, in the comfortless log hotel of a little desolate settlement.
- "The Gold Trail", Harold Bindloss. -
Most comfortless riding it is, with a horse of such kangaroo disposition, till I do get to the sight of my old ever- young green- mantled mother again; but for an hour there, it is a real blessing to me.
- "The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.", Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson.