inconvenience
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 20
- Words With Friends
- 27
- Letters
- 13
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Definition of inconvenience
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)The quality of being inconvenient.
“They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.”
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noun
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(countable, uncountable)The quality of being inconvenient.
“They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.”
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(countable, uncountable)Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
“[Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences.”
“The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding.”
“An artificial kidney […] can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.”
verb
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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”).
Words you can make from inconvenience
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