Definition of Inconvenient

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Inconvenient

Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.

Not convenient; giving trouble, uneasiness, or annoyance; hindering progress or success; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, arrangement, or time.

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An, Annoyance, Arrangement, As, Becoming, Convenient, Disadvantageous, Garment, Giving, Hindering, House, Incommodious, Inconvenient, Inexpedient, Inopportune, Not, Or, Progress, Success, Suitable, Time, Trouble, Uncomfortable, Uneasiness, Unfit

Inconvenient Quotations

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
Josh Billings

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Walter Lippmann

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
Richard Schickel

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
Millicent Fawcett

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
Denis Diderot

Inconvenient Translations

inconvenient in Afrikaans is moeilik
inconvenient in Danish is vanskelig
inconvenient in Dutch is moeilijk, lastig, slim
inconvenient in Italian is sconveniente
inconvenient in Latin is incommodus
inconvenient in Norwegian is brysom, ubeleilig, vanskelig
inconvenient in Spanish is dificil, inoportuno


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