uncomfortable
The room was uncomfortably chilly.
I've found myself sharing rooms where the beds are uncomfortably close.
Prices are rising uncomfortably fast throughout the developed world.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Comfortable and uncomfortable
airiness
airy
be in your elementidiom
be out of your elementidiom
be/feel at homeidiom
comfortably
creature comforts
curl up
discommode
discommodity
ergonomic
forgiving
lived inidiom
make yourself comfortable
nestle
oppressively
oppressiveness
scratchy
snug
well appointed

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Anxious and worried

Examples of uncomfortably

uncomfortably
The acousmatic character of recorded music may have the advantage of a concentration on the auditory, but it leaves vision 'unattached' and uncomfortably redundant.
Customary client relationships, corporate structures were corroded and uncomfortably complemented by social relations that could be expressed in monetary claims.
It must be remembered that the patient may have been in a silent world for some time so that everyday noises may seem uncomfortably loud.
Nonetheless, his claim that, however desirable in principle, community care is often unsatisfactory in practice, is uncomfortably true.
One word that is uncomfortably ubiquitous is 'pressure'.
The print is uncomfortably small and, regrettably, the notes, which are an essential adjunct to the text, are in the wrong place.
But there is something uncomfortably missing in the stories they tell.
Some of the dialogue in this book clumps, uncomfortably.
We are also uncomfortably aware that technologically knowledgeable criminals are literally getting away with it!
That kind of thinking is as dangerous as reliance on national stereotypes, to which indeed it bears an uncomfortably close resemblance.
By early 1937 the full implications of the provision were uncomfortably clear.
This sits uncomfortably with the rationalist thinking that the modern nation-state has inherited from the colonial period.
Uncomfortably often nonsense is generated by the application of insufficiently understood statistics.
Five years on, the position is uncomfortably similar.
Some readers might think that the emotional tone of this sits somewhat uncomfortably with the preceding technical writing.
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