Inconvenience
[ɪnkən'viːnɪəns] or [,ɪnkən'vinɪəns]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of not being useful or convenient.
(noun.) an inconvenient discomfort.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Incommodiousness, annoyance, vexation, molestation, disturbance, trouble, disadvantage.[2]. Awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness.[3]. Unfitness, unsuitableness, unseasonableness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Incommode, discommode, disturb, molest
ANT:Suit, aid, benefit, subserve, assist, help
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Examples
- I will answer for it that we shall find no inconvenience from narrow roads on Wednesday. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- But do not inconvenience yourself about it. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Some inconvenience to your friends, indeed, might result from ityou would not be able to give them so much of your time. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Well, that rather alters the case, because I had no idea that they thought so, and I should not have liked to disappoint or inconvenience them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Then, as to sitting here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that need cause you no inconvenience. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- This inconvenience was experienced in the early progress of Steam Navigation, and many attempts were made to overcome it, by substituting a different kind of propeller. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- And all this was to have come without study or other inconvenience, purely by the favor of providence in the shape of an old gentleman's caprice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am sorry you have been inconvenienced. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But as my aunt had swathed me up, I made no complaint of being inconvenienced. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Society provides a remedy for these three inconveniences. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- If these were some of the inconveniences of Mr. Skimpole's childhood, it assuredly possessed its advantages too. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There are inconveniences attending such feelings as Marianne's, which all the charms of enthusiasm and ignorance of the world cannot atone for. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The inconveniences would have been different. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Nature has proceeded with caution in this came, and seems to have carefully avoided the inconveniences of two extremes. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I know that it will involve many privations and inconveniences. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I entreated him to consider all the inconveniences of such a match. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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