discomfit• But the lack of historicalperspective was discomfiting.• It was a strange, discomfiting and disorientating landscape.• It was plain that the two great detectives were discomfited by each other's presence.• Her brief, ellipticalpoems, most written in the 1850s and 1860s, sorely discomfited some but greatly delighted others.• Foley's announcementdiscomfited some Democrats.• Whatever he was saying clearly discomfited the librarian.
Origindiscomfit
(1200-1300)Old Frenchdesconfit, past participle of desconfire“to destroy”, from confire“to make”