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incontrovertibleness |
incontrovertibly |
inconvenience |
inconvenience oneself |
inconveniency |
inconvenient
| inconveniently
| inconversable
| inconversant
| inconverted
| inconvertibility
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inconvenient
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective inconvenient has 2 senses
- inconvenient(a = adj.all) Array - not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs; "it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen"; "the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone" Antonym: convenient
- inconvenient(s = adj.all) Array - not conveniently timed; "an early departure is inconvenient for us"
Derived form noun inconvenience3
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient. [1913 Webster]
- Not convenient; giving trouble, uneasiness, or annoyance; hindering progress or success; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, arrangement, or time.
Syn. -- Unsuitable; uncomfortable; disaccommodating; awkward; annoying; unseasonable; inopportune; incommodious; disadvantageous; troublesome; cumbersome; embarrassing; objectionable.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
inconvenient, adj.
1 unfavourable to ease or comfort; not convenient.
2 awkward, troublesome.
1 unfavourable to ease or comfort; not convenient.
2 awkward, troublesome.
Derivative
inconveniently adv.
Etymology
ME f. OF f. L inconveniens -entis (as IN-(1), CONVENIENT)
THESAURUS
inconvenient
annoying, awkward, bothersome, bulky, burdensome, clumsy, contrary, crosswise, cumbersome, detrimental, disadvantageous, discommodious, disturbing, embarrassing, hulking, hulky, ill-considered, ill-seasoned, ill-timed, impractical, improper, inappropriate, inauspicious, incommodious, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irksome, irrelevant, irritating, late, mal a propos, malapropos, mistimed, off base, onerous, out of line, out of phase, out of time, perverse, pestiferous, ponderous, prejudicial, premature, too late, too soon, troublesome, unbefitting, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unfortunate, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unmanageable, unpropitious, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unsettling, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, unwieldy, upsetting, wrongROGET THESAURUS
inconvenient
Inexpedience
N inexpedience, inexpediency, undesirableness, undesirability, discommodity, impropriety, unfitness, inutility, disadvantage, inexpedient, undesirable, unadvisable, inadvisable, objectionable, inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient, incommodious, discommodious, disadvantageous, inappropriate, unfit, ill-contrived, ill-advised, unsatisfactory, unprofitable, unsubservient, inopportune, out of place, in the wrong place, improper, unseemly, clumsy, awkward, cumbrous, cumbersome, lumbering, unwieldy, hulky, unmanageable, impedient, unnecessary, it will never do.
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