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Webster 1913 Edition


Inconvenient

Inˊcon-ven′ient

,
Adj.
[L.
inconveniens
unbefitting: cf. F.
inconvénient
. See
In-
not, and
Convenient
.]
1.
Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.
Syn. – Unsuitable; uncomfortable; disaccommodating; awkward; annoying; unseasonable; inopportune; incommodious; disadvantageous; troublesome; cumbersome; embarrassing; objectionable.

Webster 1828 Edition


Inconvenient

INCONVE'NIENT

,
Adj.
[L. supra.]
1.
Incommodious; unsuitable; disadvantageous; giving trouble or uneasiness; increasing the difficulty of progress or success; as an inconvenient dress or garment; an inconvenient house; inconvenient customs; an inconvenient arrangement of business.
2.
Unfit; unsuitable.

Definition 2024


inconvenient

inconvenient

See also: inconvénient

English

Adjective

inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)

  1. Not convenient.

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Noun

inconvenient (plural inconvenients)

  1. (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.14:
      To provide against this inconvenient, when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soule [] they answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
  2. (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.

Adjective

inconvenient m, f (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)

  1. inconvenient

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Middle French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.

Noun

inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)

  1. disadvantage; downside; negative aspect

See also

  • desadvantage

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