Incommode

Quick meaning: Incommode is a verb meaning To make (someone) uncomfortable; to discomfort, to disturb, to trouble.

Meaning

To make (someone) uncomfortable; to discomfort, to disturb, to trouble.

More Meanings

1. To cause (someone or something) inconvenience; to hinder, to impede, to inconvenience, to obstruct.
2. (formal, obsolete) Synonym of incommodious.
3. (formal, obsolete) Something which causes inconvenience or trouble; a bother, an incommodity, an inconvenience.

Example Sentences

[H]e ſat ſolitary and penſive vvith his pipe—looking at his lame leg—then vvhiffing out a ſentimental heigh ho! vvhich mixing vvith the ſmoak, incommoded no one mortal.

Here we passed the night in comfortable quarters; yet we had been, for some weeks past, so accustomed to sleep entirely in the open air, that, at first, the confinement of a chamber incommoded us.

[T]heir Minds are ſo tender and effeminate, that they cannot bear the leaſt Air of Trouble vvithout Diſturbance; and vvhat vvould be a Diverſion to a couragious Soul, grieveth and incommodeth them.

The dwarf suffered inexpressibly on all sides; but the thing which incommoded him most, was a tall corpulent German, near seven feet high, who stood directly betwixt him and all possibility of his seeing either the stage or the actors.

Word Forms

• incommodes
• incommoding
• incommoded
• incommodest
• incommodedst
• incommodeth

Synonyms for incommode

Depending on context, synonyms include discommodate, discommode, behedge, blunt, crimp, delay.

Antonyms for incommode

Common opposites include abet, aid, befriend, bestead, grip, help.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include discommode, inconvenience, trouble, bother, disoblige, put out.

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