What's the difference between disconcerting and uncomfortable?

Disconcerting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disconcert

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
  • (2) People wander this disconcerting garden a long time, uneasy and reflective.
  • (3) More disconcerting for his club, country and the game itself with a World Cup on the horizon were the succession of injury problems that prompted allegations of burn-out in the four-time Ballon d'Or winner.
  • (4) Low degrees of role interference is likewise disconcerting to persons but in the absence of an external target for aggression may lead to self deprecation and ultimately suicide.
  • (5) A further disconcerting feature was the resemblance of the distal right ventricular chamber to the rudimentary chamber of a univentricular heart of left ventricular type.
  • (6) That disconcerting height, always looming, regally.
  • (7) There is something slightly disconcerting about seeing Terry Hall laugh - at least the first time it happens.
  • (8) Despite their disconcerting appearance on angiography, spontaneous dissections of the internal carotid arteries are often associated with a good prognosis.
  • (9) Romney said the fallout from the G4S security fiasco and a threatened strike by immigration officials were "disconcerting" and questioned whether British people would get behind the Games.
  • (10) Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children.
  • (11) The authors suggest that dichotomous variables deserve greatest clinical reliance; that time in training, alone, does not improve clinical performance; and that there is a disconcertingly large amount of inter- and intraobserver disagreement in this fundamental clinical task.
  • (12) City fan Matthew Cobb may be disconcerted, and paradoxically strangely comforted, with the news that his team are still in the dressing room.
  • (13) Prior arterial surgery was not shown to make AK amputation more likely, but it was disconcerting to note that limb salvage was not achieved in many individuals despite patent proximal inflow revascularization procedures.
  • (14) The opacity of these “other factors” aside, Facebook’s sometimes disconcerting suggestions – perhaps more accurately titled “people you most definitely know, but have no intention of adding” – have been remarked upon since it introduced the feature in 2008 .
  • (15) It is only the expression, often disconcerting, of a method of cerebral suffering and the clinician should be aware of its various presentations.
  • (16) Romney told NBC News: "There are a few things that were disconcerting.
  • (17) But it is disconcerting when you encounter it in real life.
  • (18) While these changes may be potentially disconcerting, the observations of this study show that they are not related to changes in heart rate or other clinical criteria associated with myocardial ischemia.
  • (19) My son was disconcerted when we moved back to the UK, and found that the "library" in his new primary school ("excellent", according to Ofsted) was a small bookcase halfway down a corridor.
  • (20) Locals love it and foreigners often find it disconcerting.

Uncomfortable


Definition:

  • (a.) Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
  • (a.) Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Companies had made investments in certain energy sources, the president said, so change could be “uncomfortable and difficult”.
  • (2) The talk coming from senior Tories – at least some of whom have the grace to squirm when questioned on this topic – suggesting that it's all terribly complicated, that it was a long time ago and that even SS members were, in some ways, themselves victims, is uncomfortably close to the kind of prattle we used to hear from those we called Holocaust revisionists.
  • (3) Gibson's conclusions and the question he says now need to be address will make uncomfortable reading for former heads of the UK's intelligence agencies and for ministers of the last Labour government.
  • (4) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
  • (5) Uncomfortable questions, which require an answer, whatever the result of the AV vote.
  • (6) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (7) But this no-nonsense venue, just 10km but a world away from parliament, is the latest stop in a national pro-renewables tour that is making the Abbott government decidedly uncomfortable.
  • (8) Many physicians feel uncomfortable working with alcoholic people, mostly because of poor training, and this impinges on difficulties of giving excellent care to these taxing patients.
  • (9) Digital culture has hardly helped, adding revenge porn, trolls and stranger-shaming to the list of uncomfortable modern obstacles.
  • (10) The frustrations include separation from family, uncomfortable living conditions, language barriers, and inability to change medical practices that seem improper.
  • (11) That's foolish, because Real Madrid rarely look more uncomfortable than at set pieces.
  • (12) There have been other complications in the past week, too: the admission that the NoW was involved in the hacking of Tessa Jowell's voicemails brings the uncomfortable realisation that an effort was made to target a serving cabinet minister.
  • (13) For the moment, the fit between older men and caring roles can be uncomfortable and is unlikely to get better, and all that can mean for the long term is more crises and more pressure on professional services, unless gender is put more firmly on the caring agenda.
  • (14) The worrying consequence is that the operating companies may find themselves the victims of an uncomfortable pincer movement.
  • (15) Physicians who are uncomfortable with this topic or who observe ongoing distress in their patients should refer these women to a mental health practitioner who is familiar with the issues common to women who have experienced childhood sexual abuse.
  • (16) It is suggested that a transcultural approach be adopted in managing cases in which the parents feel particularly anxious and uncomfortable about prematurely erupted teeth in order to cater for the social well-being of the child and family.
  • (17) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
  • (18) Fed up with rising energy bills and an uncomfortable home, Watson agreed to take part in a telephone survey about her energy use.
  • (19) It's an uncomfortable relationship when you're going in to squeeze something out of someone but you don't know what that is.
  • (20) The subsequent focus on James’s exit essentially gave his teammates a free pass from uncomfortable questions about why they were so poor without him.