inconvenient
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.
Origin of inconvenient
1Other words for inconvenient
Other words from inconvenient
- in·con·ven·ient·ly, adverb
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How to use inconvenient in a sentence
Crowds are inconvenient but not the raging inconvenience everyone craves at the Super Bowl.
Super Bowl highlights: Bucs celebrate championship, Tom Brady wins MVP | Des Bieler, Mark Maske, Chuck Culpepper | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostWhen confronted with something inconvenient or troublesome in their midst — particularly such conspiracy theories — the stock response is increasingly to shrug it off or claim ignorance, no matter how implausibly.
If they happen to find something that doesn’t work or is inconvenient, it is not a bad thing.
How questionnaires can help you evolve your product or business | Zakhar Yung | December 23, 2020 | Search Engine WatchUnfortunately, our species has a disturbing tendency to “surrender” animals to shelters when it is inconvenient to keep them.
Not only is this inconvenient for users, but maintaining dozens of separate websites is an administrative headache.
US House passes bill to tear down judiciary’s paywall | Timothy B. Lee | December 10, 2020 | Ars Technica
It is also true—and this is inconvenient—that the US had not been innocent in the decades leading up to 9/11.
His latest book is An inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers The Armenians?
Britain Has Lost Its Marbles: Elgin Loan Will Appease Putin | Geoffrey Robertson | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is a horrific and inconvenient truth, but paying ransoms to free hostages invariably worsens the problem in the long-term.
To Kill the ISIS Monster You Gotta Do More Than Cut Off Its Money | Charlie Winter | November 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe has struggled to keep his marriage together after confronting some inconvenient truths about himself.
A wine critic friend of mine asked for an interview with the winemaker but was told it was “inconvenient.”
Napa’s Earthquake Is Not The Only Thing Shaking The Vineyards | Clive Irving | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe fact is, that it is somewhat inconvenient to carry books in such regions, and I did not think of bringing a Bible.
Hunting the Lions | R.M. BallantyneAunt Ri was a privileged character, but her logical method of questioning was inconvenient.
Ramona | Helen Hunt JacksonWhen it is inconvenient to stain before the smears have dried, capsules can be shown by the method of Hiss.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell ToddThe Bell and Tainter machine was operated by a storage battery and this was an inconvenient and expensive form of power.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge | VariousThe old method, by which a note was named from its relative place in the Perfect System, must evidently have become inconvenient.
The Modes of Ancient Greek Music | David Binning Monro
British Dictionary definitions for inconvenient
/ (ˌɪnkənˈviːnjənt, -ˈviːnɪənt) /
not convenient; troublesome, awkward, or difficult
Derived forms of inconvenient
- inconveniently, adverb
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