inconvenience
/ɪnkənˈvinjəns/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.69 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To bother; to discomfort.
Example Sentences
- "They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial."
- "[Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences."
- "The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding."
- "An artificial kidney […] can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time."
- "He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services."
Etymology
From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: inconvenience, inconvenientia
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/
- British English: /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/