ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Inconvenient

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Inconvenient is an adjective meaning not convenient.

Meaning

not convenient.

More Meanings

  1. (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
  2. (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

Example Sentences

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.

Word Forms

Synonyms for inconvenient

Depending on context, synonyms include awkward, inopportune.

Antonyms for inconvenient

Common opposites include convenient.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inopportune, awkward, inadvisable, improper, untimely, inappropriate.

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