Incommodious
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped or small, narrow, etc.
"Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious."
- 2 Discomforting, inconvenient, or disagreeable.
"He was ſometimes ſo far compaſſionated by thoſe who knew both his merit and diſtreſſes, that they received him into their famillies, but they ſoon diſovered him to be a very incommodious inmate; […]"
- 3 Troublesome; difficult to deal with. obsolete
"In the time of this Commodus, although hee was an incommodious prince to the ſenators of Rome, yet notwithstanding there was ſome quietneſſe univerſally through the whole church of Christ from percefution, by what occaſion it is not certaine."
- 1 uncomfortably or inconveniently small wordnet
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More examples"Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious."
Etymology
From in- + commodious. Compare Latin incommodus.
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