Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

disconvenient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dis-con-ve-nient
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"[…] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare."

Etymology

From dis- + convenient.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: dis

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more disconvenient (comparative) most disconvenient (superlative)

Questions

What does disconvenient mean?: Not convenient or congruous; unsuitable; ill-adapted.
Where does disconvenient come from?: From dis- + convenient.

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