Distasteful vs Uncomfortable - What's the difference?
distasteful | uncomfortable | Related terms |
Having a bad or foul taste.
(figuratively) Unpleasant.
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Not comfortable.
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, title= Experiencing discomfort.
Uneasy or anxious.
Put off or disgusted.
Distasteful is a related term of uncomfortable.
As adjectives the difference between distasteful and uncomfortable
is that distasteful is having a bad or foul taste while uncomfortable is not comfortable.distasteful
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Alternative forms
* distastefull (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
Antonyms
* pleasant, pleasinguncomfortable
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Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}