incommodious
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped or small, narrow, etc.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious."
- "The place is small and incommodious, the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art."
- "In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd."
- "He was ſometimes ſo far compaſſionated by thoſe who knew both his merit and diſtreſſes, that they received him into their famillies, but they ſoon diſovered him to be a very incommodious inmate; […]"
- "“[…] What a silly you must be!” a comment which Tommy followed up by seizing Dinah with both arms, and dancing along by her side with incommodious fondness."
- "A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious: for a twining plant, and some authors have supposed that none have their leaves thus arranged; but a twining Siphomeris has whorls of three."
Etymology
From in- + commodious. Compare Latin incommodus.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: in
Usage
Inflected Forms
more incommodious (comparative)
most incommodious (superlative)