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Definition of Inconvenience
1. Noun. An inconvenient discomfort.
Generic synonyms: Discomfort, Uncomfortableness
Derivative terms: Incommodious
2. Verb. To cause inconvenience or discomfort to. "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
Generic synonyms: Affect, Bear On, Bear Upon, Impact, Touch, Touch On
Specialized synonyms: Distress, Straiten
Derivative terms: Bother, Botheration, Botheration, Trouble
3. Noun. A difficulty that causes anxiety.
Generic synonyms: Difficultness, Difficulty
Specialized synonyms: Awkwardness, Cumbersomeness, Unwieldiness, Flea Bite, Fly In The Ointment, Unwieldiness
Derivative terms: Troublesome, Worry
4. Noun. The quality of not being useful or convenient.
Specialized synonyms: Inaccessibility, Unavailability, Inopportuneness, Untimeliness
Antonyms: Convenience
Derivative terms: Inconvenient
Definition of Inconvenience
1. n. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.
2. v. t. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.
Definition of Inconvenience
1. Noun. The quality of being inconvenient. ¹
2. Noun. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers. ¹
3. Verb. To bother; to discomfort ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inconvenience
1. [v -NIENCED, -NIENCING, -NIENCES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inconvenience
Literary usage of Inconvenience
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery in the by Francis Vesey, Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Beames (1818)
"... the inconvenience, or the Reluctance of the other Tenants in Common, ...
being Matter of Right : whatever may be the inconvenience and Difficulty: 1813. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"Andas if there were no inconvenience, there should be no interest but what is
equivalent to the hazard, so, if there were no hazard there ought to be no ..."
3. The Lancet (1842)
"If it subside gradually, as it generally does, the patient feels no inconvenience,
and is soon quite well ; if it be suddenly arrested, as by cold applied ..."
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