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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inconvenience \in`conven"ience\, n. l. inconvenientia
inconsistency: cf. of. inconvenience.
1913 webster
1. the quality or condition of being inconvenient; lack of
convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency;
awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.
1913 webster
they plead against the inconvenience, not the
unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial.
--hooker.
1913 webster
2. that which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness;
disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes
prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or
success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty.
1913 webster
a place upon the top of mount athos above all clouds
of rain, or other inconvenience. --sir w.
raleigh.
1913 webster
man is liable to a great many inconveniences.
--tillotson.
syn: incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet;
uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
inconvenience \in`conven"ience\, v. t.
to put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a
neighbor.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
inconvenience
n 1: an inconvenient discomfort syn: incommodiousness
2: a difficulty that causes anxiety syn: troublesomeness, worriment
3: the quality of not being useful or convenient ant: convenience
v : to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "sorry to trouble
you, but..." syn: trouble, put out, disoblige, discommode,
incommode, bother
see also:
incommodiousness troublesomeness worriment convenience trouble put out
disoblige discommode incommode bother
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
173 moby thesaurus words for "inconvenience":
abuse a privilege, ado, aggravate, aggravation, ail, annoy,
annoyance, anxiety, awkwardness, be the matter, beset, besetment,
bother, bothersomeness, bulkiness, burden, burdening,
burdensomeness, burthen, can of worms, cargo, charge, charging,
clumsiness, complicate matters, concern, cross, cumbersomeness,
cumbrance, deadweight, demand, difficulty, disaccommodate,
disadvantage, discomfort, discommode, discommodity, discompose,
disoblige, disrupt, disruption, distress, disturb, disturbance,
drawback, embarrassment, encroach upon, encumbrance, evil,
exaction, exasperate, exasperation, freight, freighting, fuss,
futility, great ado, hamper, handicap, harass, harm, headache,
hindrance, hulkiness, impediment, impedimenta, impoliticalness,
impoliticness, impose on, impose upon, imposing an onus,
imposition, impracticality, impropriety, inadvisability,
inappropriateness, inaptitude, inauspiciousness, incommode,
incommodity, incongruity, inconsiderateness, inconveniency,
inconvenientness, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency,
infelicity, infliction, inopportuneness, inopportunity,
intempestivity, interfere, intermeddle, interruption, intrusion,
irk, irrelevance, irritate, lateness, laying on, load, loading,
loading down, lumber, make free with, matter, meddle, nuisance,
obtrude upon, obtrusiveness, onerousness, onus, overstep, pack,
pain, peck of troubles, penalty, perplex, perturb, plague,
ponderousness, pother, prematurity, presume on, presume upon,
presumptuousness, problem, put about, put out,
put to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle,
sea of troubles, stew, take a liberty, take liberties, tasking,
taxing, torment, trial, trouble, troublesomeness, try,
undesirability, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness,
unfortunateness, unhandiness, unmanageability, unmeetness,
unprofitability, unprofitableness, unpropitiousness, unripeness,
unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, untimeliness,
unwarranted demand, unwieldiness, unwiseness, upset, uselessness,
vex, weight, weighting, white elephant, worry, worthlessness,
wrongness
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