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inconvenience |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inconvenience \In`con*ven"ience\, n. [L. inconvenientia inconsistency: cf OF inconvenience.] 1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial. --Hooker. 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. A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience. --Sir W. Raleigh. Man is liable to a great many inconveniences. --Tillotson. Syn: Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Inconvenience \In`con*ven"ience\, v. t. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as to inconvenience a neighbor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: inconvenience n 1: an inconvenient discomfort [syn: {incommodiousness}] 2: the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal" [syn: {awkwardness}, {nuisance value}] 3: a difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: {troublesomeness}, {worriment}] 4: the quality of not being useful or convenient [ant: {convenience}] v : to cause inconvenience or discomfort to: "Sorry to trouble you but..." [syn: {trouble}, {put out}, {disoblige}, {discommode}, {incommode}, {bother}]
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