Inconvenience

Origin

From Old French inconvenience ("misfortune, calamity, impropriety") (compare French inconvenance ("impropriety") and inconvénient ("inconvenience")), from Late Latin inconvenientia ("inconsistency, incongruity").

Full definition of inconvenience

Noun

1. The quality of being inconvenient.
• HookerThey plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, ... of ceremonies in burial.
2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
• TillotsonMan is liable to a great many inconveniences.
• 2013-06-01, A better waterworks, An artificial kidney ... can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

Synonyms

• (something inconvenient) annoyance, nuisance

Verb

1. To bother; to discomfort

Synonyms

• obsolete discommodate