inconvenient
adjectivenounattested in dialogue
- //ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt//
not convenient
adjective
- 1
not convenient
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
noun
- 1
obsoleteAn inconsistency, an incongruity.
To provide against this inconvenient, when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soule[…]they answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
- 2
obsoleteAn inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
Forms
- plural
- inconvenients
- comparative
- more inconvenient
- superlative
- most inconvenient