Word Meanings - COMFORTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
Additional info about word: COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. When all is coldly, comfortlessly costly. Milton.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMFORTLESS)
- Desolate
- Bereaved
- forlorn
- forsaken
- comfortless
- deserted
- uninhabited
- desert
- wild
- waste
- bare
- bleak
- lonely
- Inconsolable
- Cheerless
- joyless
- spiritless
- melancholy
- gloomy
- disconsolate
- heartsick
- in dispair
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMFORTLESS)
Related words: (words related to COMFORTLESS)
- DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - WASTEL
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott. - DESOLATE
1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an - COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. - WASTETHRIFT
A spendthrift. - PEOPLE
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. - GLOOMY
1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - WASTEBOARD
See 3 - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - DEVELOPMENT
The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another - FORLORNLY
In a forlorn manner. Pollok. - FORLORNNESS
State of being forlorn. Boyle. - PLANTOCRACY
Government by planters; planters, collectively. - WASTE
the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into - PLANTERSHIP
The occupation or position of a planter, or the management of a plantation, as in the United States or the West Indies. - DESERTLESS
Without desert. - PLANTLESS
Without plants; barren of vegetation. - COLONIZER
One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist. Bancroft. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - OVERWASTED
Wasted or worn out; Drayton. - MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser. - SELF-FERTILIZED
Fertilized by pollen from the same flower. - NONDEVELOPMENT
Failure or lack of development. - LAMINIPLANTAR
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.