inconvenience

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=con=ven=ience

CIDE DICTIONARY

inconvenience, n. [L. inconvenientia inconsistency: cf. OF. inconvenience.].

•  The quality or condition of being inconvenient; lack of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.  [1913 Webster]

  "They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience."  [1913 Webster]

  "Man is liable to a great many inconveniences."

Syn. -- Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.

inconvenience, v. t. 

 To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inconvenience, n. & v.
--n.
1 lack of suitability to personal requirements or ease.
2 a cause or instance of this.
--v.tr. cause inconvenience to.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. LL inconvenientia (as INCONVENIENT)

THESAURUS

inconvenience

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