discomfort

Word family  noun comfort discomfort comforter adjective comfortable ≠ uncomfortable comforting verb comfort adverb comfortably ≠ uncomfortably comfortingly

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++dis·com·fort /dɪsˈkʌmfət $ -ərt/ ●○○ noun  1  [uncountable]COMFORTABLE# a feeling of slight pain or of being physically uncomfortable 不舒服，不适 If the exercise causes discomfort, stop immediately. 如果这项锻炼引起不适，就立即停止。► see thesaurus at pain2  [uncountable]EMBARRASSED a feeling of embarrassment, shame, or worry 尴尬；惭愧；不安 To her discomfort, he laughed. 他笑了起来，让她很不自在。3  [countable]COMFORTABLE# something that makes you feel uncomfortable or gives you a slight pain 令人不适的事物 the discomforts of air travel 乘飞机旅行的不适

Examples from the Corpus

discomfort• There can be no question of her discomfort.• When Eisenhower fell into the trap, Khrushchev crowed over his discomfort and demanded an apology or a repudiation of presidential responsibility.• His discomfort was extreme and obvious, but he did his best to ignore the pain in his usual stoic manner.• All was revealed, including my discomfort.• There's a limit to the amount of discomfort anyone can put up with.• My immediate instinct for humor hid my own discomfort.• The disease causes acute physical discomfort.• But the heat was more seen than felt, more hallucination than discomfort.• A cushion will help ease the discomfort of sitting on the floor.• Because of this discomfort he set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck.• But there was enough esprit de corps among our group to overcome this discomfort with a minimum amount of grumbling.

dis·com·fort nounChineseSyllable  

of or physically uncomfortable of a Corpus pain feeling being slight

discomfort
dis‧com‧fort /dɪsˈkʌmfət $ -ərt/ noun1. [uncountable] a feeling of slight pain or of being physically uncomfortable:
    If the exercise causes discomfort, stop immediately.
2. [uncountable] a feeling of embarrassment, shame, or worry:
    To her discomfort, he laughed.
3. [countable] something that makes you feel uncomfortable or gives you a slight pain:
    the discomforts of air travel
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ pain noun [uncountable and countable] the feeling when part of your body hurts: A broken leg can cause a lot of pain. | He felt a sharp pain in his chest.
   ▪ ache noun [uncountable and countable] a continuous pain, especially one that is not very bad. Most commonly used in compounds such as headache, toothache, and backache: I felt an ache in my back after decorating all day. | Driving gives me a headache. | I’ve got stomach ache. | Do you have earache?
   ▪ twinge noun [countable] a sudden slight pain that comes and then disappears quickly: When I bent down I felt a twinge in my back.
   ▪ discomfort noun [uncountable] formal an uncomfortable feeling in your body, or a slight pain: The procedure takes five minutes and only causes slight discomfort.
   ▪ agony noun [uncountable] a feeling of great pain, or a situation in which you feel a lot of pain: the agony of childbirth | I was in agony by the time I got to the hospital. | It was agony (=very painful)getting up out of bed.
   ▪ suffering noun [uncountable] continuous physical or mental pain, which makes someone very unhappy: I just wanted someone to put an end to my suffering. | the suffering of the earthquake victims