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Inconvenience
Definitions
- 1 The quality of being inconvenient. countable, uncountable
"They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial."
- 2 a difficulty that causes anxiety wordnet
- 3 Something that is not convenient, something that bothers. countable, uncountable
"[Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences."
- 4 the quality of not being useful or convenient wordnet
- 5 an inconvenient discomfort wordnet
- 1 To bother; to discomfort.
"He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services."
- 2 to cause inconvenience or discomfort to wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).
From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).
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