Job's comforter, a boil. [Colloq.]

Com"fort*less, a. Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.

Comfortless through tyranny or might.

Spenser.

Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable.

-- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.

When all is coldly, comfortlessly costly.

Milton.

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