inconvenience

¹in·con·ve·nience

noun \ˌin-kən-ˈvē-nyən(t)s\

Definition of INCONVENIENCE

1

: something that is inconvenient

2

: the quality or state of being inconvenient

Examples of INCONVENIENCE

1. I hope this delay doesn't cause you any inconvenience.
2. Bridge repairs cannot be done without some inconvenience to the public.
3. Parking in the city can be a major inconvenience.
4. The delay was an inconvenience.
5. Needham was sorry to see him go, for although his high-handedness … had caused some inconvenience, his intelligence and courage were of the first water. —Simon Winchester, The Man Who Loved China, 2008
6. Any wish or even longing I might have to see her produced no results; sometimes when she showed up it was actually inconvenient, but frustrated longing and inconvenience both ended the same way … —Jane Smiley, Good Faith, 2003
7. Jem knew as well as I that it was difficult to walk fast without stumping a toe, tripping on stones, and other inconveniences, and I was barefooted. —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

Origin of INCONVENIENCE

Middle English, misfortune, inconsistency, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin inconvenientia, from Latin inconvenient-, inconveniens

First Known Use: 1534

Related to INCONVENIENCE

Synonyms: aggravation, aggro [British], bother, botheration, bugbear, exasperation, frustration, hair shirt, hassle, headache, annoyance, irk, irritant, nuisance, peeve, pest, rub, ruffle, thorn, trial, vexation

Related Words: discomfort, fleabite, pinprick; affront, insult, offense (or offence); upset, worry; affliction, albatross, burden, cross, curse, menace, millstone, plague, sore; anxiety, plight, predicament, tribulation, trouble; hang-up, pet peeve, problem; annoyer, disturber, harasser, mischief, offender; pandora's box

Near Antonyms: delight, joy, pleasure

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