Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not convenient, especially.
- adjective Not accessible; hard to reach.
- adjective Not suited to one's comfort, purpose, or needs.
- adjective Inopportune.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not convenient.
- Unfit; unsuitable; inexpedient.
- Synonyms Troublesome, cumbrous, cumbersome, unwieldy, awkward, unhandy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.
- adjective Not convenient; giving trouble, uneasiness, or annoyance; hindering progress or success; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
convenient . - noun obsolete An
inconsistency , anincongruity . - noun obsolete An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an
inconvenience .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs
- adjective not conveniently timed
Etymologies
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Examples
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If I were Naomi Campell I might well have said I should not have used the word 'inconvenient' in the Charles Taylor trial in the Hague.
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Biblical scholar and Hebrew expert Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou continues to unearth what she calls "inconvenient truths" about the Bible.
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Poor people, being poor, often can only afford to live in inconvenient neighborhoods that are ill-served by transit.
Matthew Yglesias » Cars Are Expensive, Poor People Take the Bus 2009
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So now, the fact that some find wolves to be inconvenient is not a good reason to have them gone, or at least at minimal numbers, yet again.
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So now, the fact that some find wolves to be inconvenient is not a good reason to have them gone, or at least at minimal numbers, yet again.
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His company says the phones could equally be handy for customers who enjoy a good night out and are likely to drop their mobiles in inconvenient places.
Dragons' Den entrepreneur presents the floating phone Andrew Clark 2010
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Denying the right to life from a whole class of people because they are inconvenient is equally NOT reasonable, NOT desirable, and NOT necessary.
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Denying the right to life from a whole class of people because they are inconvenient is equally NOT reasonable, NOT desirable, and NOT necessary.
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The percentage of books stacked on the floor though inconvenient is minor challenge compared with the title selection they contain.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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When the Olympics were held in inconvenient time zones (for me) like LA '84, Seoul' 88, Atlanta '96 I used to stay up into the wee small hours watching track & field events - even the heats let alone the finals.
The 2008 Olympic 100m for men and some information about Merlene Ottey Not a sheep 2008
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