Meaning of INCONVENIENCE
| Pronunciation: | | `inkun'veenyuns
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- [n] a difficulty that causes anxiety
- [n] the quality of not being useful or convenient
- [n] the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"
- [n] an inconvenient discomfort
- [v] to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
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| | Synonyms: | | bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, incommodiousness, nuisance value, put out, trouble, troublesomeness, worriment |
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| | Antonyms: | | convenience | | |
| | See Also: | | affect, awkwardness, bear on, bear upon, cumbersomeness, difficultness, difficulty, disadvantage, discomfort, flea bite, fly in the ointment, impact, inaccessibility, ineptness, inopportuneness, touch, touch on, unavailability, uncomfortableness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, untimeliness, unwieldiness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\In`con*ven"ience\, n. [L. inconvenientia
inconsistency: cf. OF. inconvenience.]
1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of
convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency;
awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.
They plead against the inconvenience, not the
unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial.
--Hooker.
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.
A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds
of rain, or other inconvenience. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
Man is liable to a great many inconveniences.
--Tillotson.
Syn: Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet;
uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.
\In`con*ven"ience\, v. t.
To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a
neighbor.
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