Thesaurus: inconvenience

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1. n. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.
2. n. That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty.
3. v. t. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.
4. n. an inconvenient discomfort
5. n. a difficulty that causes anxiety
6. n. the quality of not being useful or convenient
7. v. to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
8. 1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial. Hooker. 2. That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty. A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience. Sir W. Raleigh. Man is liable to a great many inconveniences. Tillotson. Syn. -- Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.
9. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience aneighbor.
10. v:13/n:87 n. an inconvenient discomfort n. the quality of not being useful or convenient