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disconvenient

disconvenient adjective: not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.

Adjective

disconvenient (comparative more disconvenient, superlative most disconvenient)

  1. (obsolete) Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
    • […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man

Forms of disconvenient

comparativemore disconvenient
superlativemost disconvenient

Origin of disconvenient

From dis- + convenient.

Questions about disconvenient

What does disconvenient mean?
Disconvenient means not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
What part of speech is disconvenient?
Disconvenient is an adjective.

Words near disconvenient in the dictionary

  1. discontinuously
  2. discontinuousness
  3. discontinuum
  4. disconvenience
  5. disconveniences
  6. disconvenient
  7. discoordinate
  8. discoordinated
  9. discoordinating
  10. discoordination
  11. discopathies

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