inconvenience Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an inconvenient discomfort
    incommodiousness.
  2. noun a difficulty that causes anxiety
    worriment; troublesomeness.
  3. noun the quality of not being useful or convenient
  4. verb to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
    disoblige; bother; incommode; discommode; trouble; put out.
    • Sorry to trouble you, but...

WordNet

In`con*ven"ience noun
Etymology
L. inconvenientia inconsistency: cf. OF. inconvenience.
Definitions
  1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.
    They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial. Hooker.
  2. That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty.
    A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience. Sir W. Raleigh.
    Man is liable to a great many inconveniences. Tillotson.
    Syn. -- Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.
In`con*ven"ience transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.

Webster 1913