inconvenient
See also: inconvénient
English
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, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By 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.
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- (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
Related terms
- inconvenience (noun)
- inconveniently (adverb)
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveniēns, inconvenientem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
inconvenient (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)
- inconvenient
- Antonym: convenient
Derived terms
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.
- “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
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.
See also
- desadvantage
Descendants
- English: inconvenient
- French: inconvénient
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