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inconvenient
[ in-kuhn-veen-yuhnt ]
adjective
- not easily accessible or at hand:
The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- inopportune; untimely:
an inconvenient time for a visit.
- not suiting one's needs or purposes:
The house has an inconvenient floor plan.
Synonyms: bothersome, awkward, annoying
inconvenient
/ -ˈviːnɪənt; ˌɪnkənˈviːnjənt /
adjective
- not convenient; troublesome, awkward, or difficult
Derived Forms
- ˌinconˈveniently, adverb
Other Words From
- incon·venient·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of inconvenient1
Example Sentences
Some of that is a product of an educational system scrubbed clean of inconvenient history and basic civics lessons by conservative lobbyists and politicians.
Like many of Harris’ media appearances, those events assured the former president steered well away from hectoring hosts and their inconvenient fact-checking.
Ron, a Phoenix voter who declined to give his last name, said his polling place did not have enough printer paper in 2020, which was inconvenient for voters and caused some to leave early.
The poor, working-class, and middle-class white men who form the base of Trumpism and American neofascism will be discarded once they prove to be inconvenient to Dictator Trump and the movement.
While the British legal system has not silenced him, they have undoubtedly made it extremely inconvenient for him to spread his message of climate activism to the world.
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