About The Word Inconvenience
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Inconvenience
| Inconvenience Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Inconvenience?
[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..."
Synonyms | Synonyms for Inconvenience: bother |
discommode |
disoblige |
incommode |
incommodiousness |
nuisance value |
put out |
trouble |
troublesomeness |
worriment
Related Terms | Find terms related to 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
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
Inconvenience In Webster's Dictionary
\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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