| 词汇 | comfortless |
| 释义 | comfortless adjective formaluk /ˈkʌm.fət.ləs/ us /ˈkʌm.fɚt.ləs/ without anything that gives physical comfort没有舒适设施的；不舒适的 Synonyms austere bleak hard(SEVERE) harsh(UNKIND) inhospitable(PLACE) rough(DIFFICULT) severe spartan Saddening, shocking and upsetting affecting agonizingly arrogance baleful be cold comfortidiom distressful distressfully distressing distressingly dolorous hurtful hurtfully impiously impiousness lacerating teary touching touchingly tragically traumatic A blast of desolation, a portent of disgrace and disaster, seemed to draw through the comfortless hall. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come unto you. Most comfortless and disagreeable weather is this for the caravan. The trip was a comfortless one for officers and men. They generally lived on large and comfortless tracts of land, and had very few cities away from the sea-coast. Examples of comfortlesscomfortless It is a comfortless unsatisfying trade, that of living upon other people's money. Next morning revealed 'a grey, comfortless dawn', the weather worse than ever. Such an observation is not only cold and comfortless, but in some respects it is cool and callous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The children are locked individually in the ordinary type of bare comfortless prison cell measuring about 7 ft. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The home is comfortless, dirty, overcrowded and in condemned property. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Mental deficiency is another matter entirely but there, too, we should protect these comfortless poor little creatures and be prepared to pay for it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The comfortless conditions in that trade are a by-word. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there any necessity for waiting-rooms to be as bleak and comfortless as a prison cell? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Today, well over a million people are living in damp and dismal hutments like sardines in a leaking tin, in cold and comfortless caravans and with uncongenial and unstable companions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He has eased his comfortless position. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Would it not have been possible to give them two or three days' leave rather than to make people go to the dock in comfortless conditions? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One worker described her quarters as a small, comfortless, half-ventilated apartment containing some half a dozen occupants. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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