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INCONVENIENT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs
Example:
the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone
Classified under:
Similar:
awkward (causing inconvenience)
Attribute:
convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)
Antonym:
convenient (suited to your comfort or purpose or needs)
Derivation:
inconvenience (the quality of not being useful or convenient)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not conveniently timed
Example:
an early departure is inconvenient for us
Classified under:
Similar:
inopportune (not opportune)
Context examples:
Their buildings, although very rude and simple, are not inconvenient, but well contrived to defend them from all injuries of cold and heat.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
If it be not inconvenient to you, pray let us go in, that I may prove myself to belong to the place, to be a true citizen of Highbury.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
It is very inconvenient to have no butcher in the street.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I am not so selfish, however, as to press for it, if inconvenient.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“To answer it in person, however inconvenient the journey,” pursued Mr. Murdstone, “rather than by letter. This unhappy boy who has run away from his friends and his occupation—”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These were her internal persuasions: Old fashioned notions; country hospitality; we do not profess to give dinners; few people in Bath do; Lady Alicia never does; did not even ask her own sister's family, though they were here a month: and I dare say it would be very inconvenient to Mrs Musgrove; put her quite out of her way.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I think I haven't done much harm yet, and may keep this to pay for my time, she said, after a long meditation, adding impatiently, I almost wish I hadn't any conscience, it's so inconvenient.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mr. John Knightley's being a lawyer is very inconvenient.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The twins testified their joy by several inconvenient but innocent demonstrations.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
