incommode
Plural: incommodes
Verb
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- To make (someone) uncomfortable; to discomfort, to disturb, to trouble.
- To cause (someone or something) inconvenience; to hinder, to impede, to inconvenience, to obstruct.
Adj
- Synonym of incommodious.
- Inapt; unsuitable.
- Synonym of incommodious.
- Inconvenient; troublesome.
Noun
- Something which causes inconvenience or trouble; a bother, an incommodity, an inconvenience.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*ḱóm
Learned borrowing from French incommoder (“to bother, disconcert, incommode”), from Latin incommodāre, the present active infinitive of incommodō (“to inconvenience”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commodō (“to accommodate, adapt; to bestow, provide; to hire, lend”) (from com- (a variant of con- (prefix indicating completeness or intensification)) + modō (the ablative or singular of modus (“manner, method, way; bound, limit; measure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”))). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commode (“(archaic or obsolete) to provide (someone or something) with an appropriate, suitable, or necessary thing; to meet the requirements of (someone or something), suit; to repair (something)”).
Synonyms
bother, discommode, disoblige, inconvenience, put out, trouble, behedge, blunt, delay, difficult, diminish, discommodate, forestay, forslow, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, hurt, impair, impede, incommode, interfere, intervene, lessen, let, mar, obstruct, overslaugh, preclude, prevene, prevent, prohibit, reduce, restrict, retard, slow down, stay, thwart, thwarten, umbeset, undermine, weaken, worsen
Scrabble Score: 16
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incommode: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary