inconvenience

Speech parts

1. inconvenience - Noun

2. inconvenience - Verb

Meaning

The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.

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.

To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

trouble annoyance incommode discommode incommodiousness disadvantage disturbance nuisance bother disoblige put out worriment troublesomeness problem plague
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Antonyms

convenience support service value addition help
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Hypernyms

impact affect difficulty touch discomfort ineptness

Hyponyms

distress awkwardness straiten inaccessibility untimeliness cumbersomeness

Phrases with the word

prevent inconvenience avoid inconvenience inconvenience for general inconvenience

Examples

The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones. Joseph Joubert

The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. Anthony Kennedy

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. Alice Walker

The loss of one night's sleep is followed by ten days of inconvenience. Chinese Proverb

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience. English Proverb

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great inconvenience. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

incontrovertibleness incontrovertibly inconvenable inconvenience for inconvenience oneself inconveniencer