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Webster 1913 Edition
Inconvenient
Inˊcon-ven′ient
,Adj.
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.
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
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See also: inconvénient
English
Adjective
inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)
- Not convenient.
Translations
not convenient
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Antonyms
Noun
inconvenient (plural inconvenients)
- (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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.14:
- (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
Related terms
- inconvenience (noun)
- inconveniently (adverb)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.
Adjective
inconvenient m, f (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)
Antonyms
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Middle French
Etymology
Borrowing from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.
Noun
inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)
- disadvantage; downside; negative aspect
See also
- desadvantage
Descendants
- English: inconvenient
- French: inconvénient