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inconvenient

adjectivenounattested in dialogue

  • //ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt//

not convenient

adjective

  1. 1

    not convenient

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.

noun

  1. 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. 2

    obsoleteAn inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

Forms

plural
inconvenients
comparative
more inconvenient
superlative
most inconvenient
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).