uncomfortable
/ʌnˈkʌmftəbl/ adjectiveDefinition
PHYSICAL › not feeling comfortable and pleasant, or not making you feel comfortable and pleasant: I've eaten so much, I'm really quite uncomfortable. These shoes are really uncomfortable.
SITUATION › slightly embarrassed, or making you feel slightly embarrassed: an uncomfortable silence
uncomfortably adverb (Definition of uncomfortable adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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