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inconvenient definition
Overview
This page has 7 definitions of inconvenient with English translations in 4 languages. Inconvenient is an adjective and noun. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
See also: inconvénient
English inconvenient definition
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Adjective
inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)
- not convenient
- Antonym: convenient
Translations
not convenient
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Noun
inconvenient (plural inconvenients)
- (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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.
- (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
Related terms
- inconvenience (noun)
- inconveniently (adverb)
Anagrams
Catalan inconvenient definition
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveniēns, inconvenientem.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /iŋ.kom.və.niˈent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /iŋ.kum.bə.niˈen/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /iŋ.kom.ve.niˈent/
Adjective
inconvenient (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)
- inconvenient
- Antonym: convenient
Derived terms
Noun
inconvenient m (plural inconvenients)
Related terms
Further reading
- “inconvenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inconvenient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2022
- “inconvenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inconvenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Middle French inconvenient definition
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.
Noun
inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)
- disadvantage; downside; negative aspect
See also
- desadvantage
Descendants
- English: inconvenient
- French: inconvénient
Romanian inconvenient definition
Etymology
From French inconvénient, from Latin inconveniens.
Noun
inconvenient n (plural inconveniente)
Declension
Declension of inconvenient
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) inconvenient | inconvenientul | (niște) inconveniente | inconvenientele |
| genitive/dative | (unui) inconvenient | inconvenientului | (unor) inconveniente | inconvenientelor |
| vocative | inconvenientule | inconvenientelor | ||