'Inconvenience' definitions:
Definition of 'inconvenience'
From: WordNet
noun
An inconvenient discomfort [syn: inconvenience, incommodiousness]
noun
A difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment]
noun
The quality of not being useful or convenient [ant: convenience]
verb
Definition of 'Inconvenience'
From: GCIDE
- Inconvenience \In`con*ven"ience\, v. t. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Inconvenience'
From: GCIDE
- Inconvenience \In`con*ven"ience\, n. [L. inconvenientia inconsistency: cf. OF. inconvenience.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- Man is liable to a great many inconveniences. --Tillotson.
- Syn: Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'inconvenience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse a privilege,
- ado,
- aggravate,
- aggravation,
- ail,
- annoy,
- annoyance,
- anxiety,
- awkwardness,
- be the matter,
- beset,
- besetment,
- bother,
- bothersomeness,
- bulkiness,
- burden,
- burdening,
- burdensomeness,
- burthen,
- can of worms,
- cargo,
- charge,
- charging,
- clumsiness,
- complicate matters,
- concern,
- cross,
- cumbersomeness,
- cumbrance,
- deadweight,
- demand,
- difficulty,
- disaccommodate,
- disadvantage,
- discomfort,
- discommode,
- discommodity,
- discompose,
- disoblige,
- disrupt,
- disruption,
- distress,
- disturb,
- disturbance,
- drawback,
- embarrassment,
- encroach upon,
- encumbrance,
- evil,
- exaction,
- exasperate,
- exasperation,
- freight,
- freighting,
- fuss,
- futility,
- great ado,
- hamper,
- handicap,
- harass,
- harm,
- headache,
- hindrance,
- hulkiness,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- impoliticalness,
- impoliticness,
- impose on,
- impose upon,
- imposing an onus,
- imposition,
- impracticality,
- impropriety,
- inadvisability,
- inappropriateness,
- inaptitude,
- inauspiciousness,
- incommode,
- incommodity,
- incongruity,
- inconsiderateness,
- inconveniency,
- inconvenientness,
- ineptitude,
- inexpedience,
- inexpediency,
- infelicity,
- infliction,
- inopportuneness,
- inopportunity,
- intempestivity,
- interfere,
- intermeddle,
- interruption,
- intrusion,
- irk,
- irrelevance,
- irritate,
- lateness,
- laying on,
- load,
- loading,
- loading down,
- lumber,
- make free with,
- matter,
- meddle,
- nuisance,
- obtrude upon,
- obtrusiveness,
- onerousness,
- onus,
- overstep,
- pack,
- pain,
- peck of troubles,
- penalty,
- perplex,
- perturb,
- plague,
- ponderousness,
- pother,
- prematurity,
- presume on,
- presume upon,
- presumptuousness,
- problem,
- put about,
- put out,
- put to inconvenience,
- put to it,
- put to trouble,
- puzzle,
- sea of troubles,
- stew,
- take a liberty,
- take liberties,
- tasking,
- taxing,
- torment,
- trial,
- trouble,
- troublesomeness,
- try,
- undesirability,
- unfavorableness,
- unfitness,
- unfittingness,
- unfortunateness,
- unhandiness,
- unmanageability,
- unmeetness,
- unprofitability,
- unprofitableness,
- unpropitiousness,
- unripeness,
- unseasonableness,
- unseemliness,
- unsuitability,
- untimeliness,
- unwarranted demand,
- unwieldiness,
- unwiseness,
- upset,
- uselessness,
- vex,
- weight,
- weighting,
- white elephant,
- worry,
- worthlessness,
- wrongness