Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inconvenient or uncomfortable, as by not affording sufficient space.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not commodious; inconvenient; tending to incommode; not affording ease or advantage; giving trouble; annoying.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Tending to incommode; not commodious; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble; inconvenient; annoying
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Uncomfortable orinhospitable , especially due to beingcramped . - adjective
Discomforting ,inconvenient , orunsuitable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective uncomfortably or inconveniently small
Etymologies
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Examples
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How do I expect others to enjoy a single-origin half-pull in such an incommodious space when I know that I myself could never?
Steven Nereo: The Silent Crisis Steven Nereo 2011
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The present situation constitutionally is more of an incommodious interregnum.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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The present situation constitutionally is more of an incommodious interregnum.
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How do I expect others to enjoy a single-origin half-pull in such an incommodious space when I know that I myself could never?
Steven Nereo: The Silent Crisis Steven Nereo 2011
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No reason has been given for the additional delay, but I'm crossing my fingers in the hope that it has something to do with correcting the incommodious, head-cropping, widescreen framing given to THE MODERN COUPLE 1977 on the test discs that were sent to me and other members of the press.
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No reason has been given for the additional delay, but I'm crossing my fingers in the hope that it has something to do with correcting the incommodious, head-cropping, widescreen framing given to THE MODERN COUPLE 1977 on the test discs that were sent to me and other members of the press.
Archive 2008-03-23 2008
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Of this union is said to have sprung (for I am determined not to be certain on that point) that most incommodious person, Francis Tyrrel, as he calls himself, but as I would rather call him, Francis Martigny; the latter suiting my views, as perhaps the former name agrees better with his pretensions.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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“So that possibly,” said the Sub – Prior, “your private affairs rendered a foreign journey less incommodious to you than it might have been to the noble earl, your right worthy cousin?”
The Monastery 2008
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The difficulty of getting forward was so great, that considerable gaps began to occur in the line of march, and the distance between the van, centre, and rear, was each moment increased in a degree equally incommodious and dangerous.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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For every judge of right and wrong is not judge of what is commodious or incommodious to the
Leviathan 2007
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