Incommodious

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(of a place) Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped or small, narrow, etc..

Definitions by Sense

1. (of a place) Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped or small, narrow, etc.
2. Discomforting, inconvenient, or disagreeable.
3. (obsolete, of a person) Troublesome; difficult to deal with.

Example Sentences

Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious.

The place is small and incommodious, the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art.

In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd.

He was ſometimes ſo far compaſſionated by thoſe who knew both his merit and diſtreſſes, that they received him into their famillies, but they ſoon diſovered him to be a very incommodious inmate; […]

“[…] What a silly you must be!” a comment which Tommy followed up by seizing Dinah with both arms, and dancing along by her side with incommodious fondness.

A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious: for a twining plant, and some authors have supposed that none have their leaves thus arranged; but a twining Siphomeris has whorls of three.

In the time of this Commodus, although hee was an incommodious prince to the ſenators of Rome, yet notwithstanding there was ſome quietneſſe univerſally through the whole church of Christ from percefution, by what occaſion it is not certaine.

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• more incommodious
• most incommodious

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