incommodious

Adjective

incommodious (comparative more incommodious, superlative most incommodious)

1. Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped or small, narrow, etc.
   • 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.1859, Charles Dickens, “Five Years Later”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 33
   • 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.1909, Henry James, “Venice”, in Italian hours, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 36
2. Discomforting, inconvenient, or disagreeable.
   • 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; […]1783, Samuel Johnson, “Savage”, in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on Their Works, volume III, London: Printed for C. Bathurst, […] , →OCLC, page 292
   • “[…] 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.1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Adam and Dinah”, in Adam Bede […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book sixth, page 281

   Synonyms:

   troublesome, annoying, incommode

3. (obsolete) Troublesome; difficult to deal with.
   • 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.1610 October, John Foxe, “A deſcription of the ten fifth perſecutions in the primitiue church, with a liuely portraiture of the variety of their torments”, in The Second Volume of the Ecclesiasticall...
   • And vve may obſerve in general, that if vve can find any quality in a perſon, vvhich renders him incommodious to thoſe, vvho live and converſe vvith him, vve alvvays allovv it to be a fault or blemiſh, vvithout any farther examination.1740, [David Hume], “Of Goodness and Benevolence”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book III (Of Morals), London: […] Thomas Longman, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Other Virtues and Vices), page 255