noun
1. the state of being tense and feeling pain
• Syn: ↑discomfort
• Ant: ↑comfort (for: ↑discomfort)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑uncomfortable
• Hyponyms:
↑inconvenience, ↑incommodiousness, ↑malaise, ↑unease, ↑uneasiness, ↑hangover, ↑katzenjammer, ↑wretchedness
2. embarrassment deriving from the feeling that others are critically aware of you
• Syn: ↑self-consciousness, ↑uneasiness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑uncomfortable, ↑uneasy (for: ↑uneasiness), ↑self-conscious (for: ↑self-consciousness)
• Hypernyms: ↑embarrassment
Useful english dictionary. 2012.