Uncomfortable vs Ascetic - What's the difference?
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Not comfortable.
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, title= Experiencing discomfort.
Uneasy or anxious.
Put off or disgusted.
Of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
* Sir Walter Scott
One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
Uncomfortable is a related term of ascetic.
As adjectives the difference between uncomfortable and ascetic
is that uncomfortable is not comfortable while ascetic is of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.As a noun ascetic is
one who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.uncomfortable
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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.}}
Antonyms
* comfortable * ergonomicascetic
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(wikipedia ascetic)Alternative forms
* ascetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline.