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unconvenience

unconvenience is the archaic form of inconvenience.

Meaning of inconvenience

Noun

inconvenience (countable and uncountable, plural inconveniences)

  1. The quality of being inconvenient.
    • They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.[1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page)
  2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
    • [Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences.1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B. Aylmer...

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Forms of unconvenience

pluralunconveniences

Questions about unconvenience

What is unconvenience the archaic form of?
Unconvenience is the archaic form of inconvenience.

Words near unconvenience in the dictionary

  1. uncontrovertibly
  2. uncontused
  3. unconvene
  4. unconvened
  5. unconvenes
  6. unconvenience
  7. unconveniences
  8. unconvenient
  9. unconveniently
  10. unconvening
  11. unconventional

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unconvenience (page history and authors); inconvenience (page history and authors). 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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