Inconvenient

Origin

From Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.

Full definition of inconvenient

Adjective

1. Not convenient.

Antonyms

• convenient

Noun

1. (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.14: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.
2. (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

Related terms

• inconvenience (noun)
• inconveniently (adverb)