inconvenience
Other forms: inconveniences; inconvenienced; inconveniencing
An inconvenience is an annoying occurrence that makes you go out of your way, like the inconvenience of a detour that takes you off your usual route, or the inconvenience of the door bell ringing just as you are about to take a dish out of the oven.
The noun inconvenience, pronounced "in-cun-VEE-nyent," comes from the Latin word inconvenientia, from in-, meaning “not,” and convenient-, meaning “agreeing, fitting.” That meaning still holds true for inconvenience: something that doesn’t fit easily into your life, though it doesn't cause suffering, either. Use it to describe small irritations, like the inconvenience of an airport delay.
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the quality of not being useful or convenientantonyms:conveniencethe quality of being useful and convenienttypes:type of:ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitablenessthe quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
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an inconvenient discomfortsynonyms: incommodiousness
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a difficulty that causes anxietysynonyms: troublesomeness, worrimenttypes:flea bitea very minor inconveniencefly in the ointmentan inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of somethingunwieldinessthe quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexitytype of:
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cause inconvenience or discomfort to
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