Definition of INCONVENIENCE

inconvenience

Plural: inconveniences

Noun

  • an inconvenient discomfort
  • a difficulty that causes anxiety
  • the quality of not being useful or convenient
  • The quality of being inconvenient.
  • Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.

Verb

  • to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
  • To bother; to discomfort.

Origin / 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”).

Antonyms

convenience

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