inconvenient
/ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/
inconvenient adjective: not convenient.
Adjective
inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)
- not convenient
- Synonyms:
- incommodious
- Antonyms:
- convenient
Noun
inconvenient (plural inconvenients)
- An inconsistency, an incongruity.
- 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
inconvenient meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
inconvenient in Hindi
- inconvenient
- असुविधाजनक asuvidhājanak
inconvenient in Tamil
- இக்கட்டான, தொந்தரவான, தொல்லையான வசதியில்லா, வசதிக்குறைவான
inconvenient in Marathi
- गैरसोयीचे
inconvenient in Urdu
- not convenient
- نامناسب nāmunāsib
More languagesFewer languages
- inconvenient in Bengali
- অগতিক ôgôtik
- inconvenient in Malayalam
- അസൗകര്യപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന, അസൗകര്യപ്രദമായ, വിഷമമുണ്ടാക്കുന്ന, വെെഷമ്യകരമായ
- inconvenient in Kannada
- ಹದುಳವಿಲ್ಲದ, ಸುಳುವಿಲ್ಲದ, ತೊಂದರೆಯ, ತಕ್ಕುದಲ್ಲದ
- inconvenient in Gujarati
- અસુવિધાજનક
- inconvenient in Vietnamese
- bất tiện, mất công
Examples of inconvenient in a sentence
- I know Wiktionary has some, but only in an appendix and it’s inconvenient to access.
- We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.
- Hardly anyone wants to touch this subject, as it seems to be overwhelming and inconvenient.
Synonyms of inconvenient
Antonyms
Forms of inconvenient
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more inconvenient |
| superlative | most inconvenient |
| Noun | |
| plural | inconvenients |
Origin of inconvenient
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Words formed from inconvenient
Questions about inconvenient
- What does inconvenient mean?
- Inconvenient means not convenient.
- What is inconvenient in Hindi?
- Inconvenient in Hindi is असुविधाजनक (asuvidhājanak). See Inconvenient meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is inconvenient?
- Inconvenient can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce inconvenient?
- Inconvenient is pronounced /ˌɪn.kənˈviːni.ənt/.
Words near inconvenient in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inconvenient (page history and authors); असुविधाजनक (Hindi) (page history and authors); inconvenient (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inconvenient (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); অগতিক (Bengali) (page history and authors); inconvenient (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inconvenient (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); inconvenient (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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