inconvenient
Americanadjective
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not easily accessible or at hand.
The phone is in an inconvenient place.
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inopportune; untimely.
an inconvenient time for a visit.
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not suiting one's needs or purposes.
The house has an inconvenient floor plan.
- Synonyms:
- bothersome, awkward, annoying
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inconveniently adverb
Etymology
Origin of inconvenient
1325–75; Middle English < Latin inconvenient- (stem of inconveniēns ) not suiting. See in- 3, convenient
Example Sentences
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EV haters were certainly not wrong to say the technology was underbaked, overpriced and often inconvenient.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
At the weekends, she would gather with the few national-standard players in her state and do some contact work at a mutually inconvenient central location.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
His vanishing cultural presence also exposed another inconvenient fact—that he was hardly as godly as the memes made him out to be.
From Slate • Mar. 20, 2026
To age is to find one’s appreciation for life’s daily joys sharpen, especially as more inconvenient realities assert themselves.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
It popped up at the most inconvenient times, effervesced in all my rhymes.
From "Bronx Masquerade" by Nikki Grimes
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