inconvenient
See also: inconvénient
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Adjective
inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)
- not convenient
- Antonym: convenient
Translations
not convenient
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Noun
inconvenient (plural inconvenients)
- (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.14:
- 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.
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- (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
Related terms
- inconvenience (noun)
- inconveniently (adverb)
Anagrams
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.
Adjective
inconvenient (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.
Noun
inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)
- disadvantage; downside; negative aspect
See also
- desadvantage
Descendants
- English: inconvenient
- French: inconvénient
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