discomfort

noun
/dɪsˈkʌmfət/UK/dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/US

Etymology

From Middle English discomforten, from Anglo-Norman descomforter, equivalent to dis- + comfort.

  1. derived from descomforter
  2. inherited from discomforten

Definitions

  1. Mental or bodily distress.

  2. Something that disturbs one’s comfort

    Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.

  3. To cause annoyance or distress to.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. To discourage

      To discourage; to deject.

      • His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at discomfort. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at discomfort. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at discomfort

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA