inconvenience

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/, /ɪŋk-/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, /ɪŋk-/ Hyphenation: in‧con‧ve‧nience === Noun === inconvenience (countable and uncountable, plural inconveniences) The quality of being inconvenient. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers. ==== Synonyms ==== (something inconvenient): annoyance, nuisance, trouble ==== Translations ==== === Verb === inconvenience (third-person singular simple present inconveniences, present participle inconveniencing, simple past and past participle inconvenienced) To bother; to discomfort. ==== Synonyms ==== (obsolete) discommodate discommode incommode impose ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “inconvenience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inconvenience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.