discomfortとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkʌmfət/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkʌmfɚt/

名詞

discomfort (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 discomforts)

1. Mental or bodily distress.
   • 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 86:

     The Western operating authorities are wisely concentrating their main line diesel power at individual sheds, beginning with Laira, so that engine-crews do not have the rather demoralising experience of switching about constantly between the comfort and ease of diesel handling and the relative discomfort and hard work of the steam footplate, as on other Regions.

2. Something that disturbs one’s comfort; an annoyance.
   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

   • 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera‎^[1]:

     This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.

派生語

• motion discomfort

動詞

discomfort (三人称単数 現在形 discomforts, 現在分詞 discomforting, 過去形および過去分詞形 discomforted)

1. To cause annoyance or distress to.
2. (obsolete) To discourage; to deject.
   • 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:

     His funeral shall not be in our camp,
     Lest it discomfort us.

使用する際の注意点

As a verb, the unrelated term discomfit is often used instead, largely interchangeably, though this is proscribed by some as an error, discomfit originally meaning “destroy”, not “distress”.

派生語

• discomforter

参考

• discomfit