Definition of inconvenient
: not convenient especially in giving trouble or annoyance : inopportune an inconvenient time
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Examples of inconvenient in a Sentence
The restaurant is in an inconvenient location.
the unexpected visitors showed up at an inconvenient time
Recent Examples of inconvenient from the Web
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Still, small thinking slip-ups are inconvenient and can sometimes be early warning signs of a more significant problem.
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Ducking out of work to see a listing is inconvenient, but also a bit of an adventure.
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Also, there’s this inconvenient fact: nobody is even a little sure what the value or distribution of cable sports programming will look like for most of the years of the Royals’ next television contract.
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Its ambition is to replace nature's wisdom with people's cleverness; to treat nature not as model and mentor but as a set of limits to be evaded when inconvenient; not to study nature but to restructure it.
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Origin and Etymology of inconvenient
Middle English, incongruous, harmful, from Anglo-French, from Latin inconvenient-, inconveniens, from in- + convenient-, conveniens convenient
First Known Use: 1616
INCONVENIENT Defined for English Language Learners
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: causing trouble or problems : not convenient
INCONVENIENT Defined for Kids
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: causing trouble or difficulty : not convenient That time is inconvenient for me.
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