Thesaurus
discomforting
Synonyms and Antonyms of discomforting
- a discomforting perch on the thin balcony rail
- the layoff rumors created a discomforting situation for the workers who depend on the factory for a living
daunting, demoralizing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting
harassing, persecutive, persecutory
alarming, dire, direful, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, hair-raising, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, intimidating, scary, shocking, terrible, terrifying
calming, quieting, settling, soothing
comforting, consoling, dreamy, inviting, lulling, narcotic, pacifying, relaxing, sedative, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
discomforting
Synonyms and Antonyms of discomforting
- the harsh criticism of his musical talent did not discomfort him in the least
agitating, ailing, alarming (also alaruming), bothering, concerning, derailing, discomposing, dismaying, disquieting, distempering, distracting, distressing, disturbing, exercising, flurrying, frazzling, freaking (out), fussing, hagriding, perturbing, undoing, unhinging, unsettling, upsetting, weirding out, worrying
aggravating, angering, annoying, bugging, chafing, chivying (or chivvying), exasperating, fretting, galling, getting, grating, harassing, harrying, irking, irritating, nettling, peeving, pestering, piquing, putting off, putting out, riling, vexing
bedeviling, haunting, plaguing
abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, jarring, mortifying, nonplussing (also nonplusing), rattling, shaking up
daunting, demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting, unnerving
calming, composing, quieting, settling, soothing, tranquilizing (also tranquillizing)
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