What's the difference between comfortless and comfortress?
Comfortless
Definition:
(a.) Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.
Example Sentences:
(1) I can see their value: their actual physical relevance to children as well as their importance to them as symbols of comfort in a comfortless world.
(2) Like many adolescents, he feels that the world is an alien, hostile and comfortless place run by “phonies”.
(3) "John is our poet laureate of flopsweat, of lost opportunity, of missed connections and of hidden dread, of what he himself calls 'the comfortless tragedy of isolated hearts'."
(4) John is our poet laureate of flopsweat, of lost opportunity, of missed connections and of hidden dread, of what he himself calls ‘the comfortless tragedy of isolated hearts’.” David Hare on Osborne
(5) But the main reason for the nerve-grating comfortlessness in Mladic's capture is that there has been no real reckoning among the Bosnian Serbs – and very little in Serbia proper – of the kind the Germans underwent.