MEANING
1. Lacking the conveniences, warmth, or ease that would make an experience or place comfortable.
2. Offering or receiving no emotional consolation.
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- a comfortless room
- a comfortless bed
- a comfortless journey
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The comfortless room offered a narrow bed and a window that would not close.
They spent a comfortless night beside the stalled truck, taking turns with the only blanket.
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Primary category: setting. Forms: Usually non-gradable; more comfortless and most comfortless are possible in expressive prose. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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