Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inconvenience"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inconvenience \In`con*ven"ience\, n. [L. inconvenientia
inconsistency: cf. OF. inconvenience.]
1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of
convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency;
awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.
They plead against the inconvenience, not the
unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial.
--Hooker.
2. That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness;
disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes
prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or
success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty.
A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds
of rain, or other inconvenience. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
Man is liable to a great many inconveniences.
--Tillotson.
Syn: Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet;
uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Inconvenience \In`con*ven"ience\, v. t.
To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a
neighbor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
inconvenience
n 1: an inconvenient discomfort [syn: {incommodiousness}]
2: the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the
awkwardness of his proposal" [syn: {awkwardness}, {nuisance
value}]
3: a difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: {troublesomeness}, {worriment}]
4: the quality of not being useful or convenient [ant: {convenience}]
v : to cause inconvenience or discomfort to: "Sorry to trouble
you, but..." [syn: {trouble}, {put out}, {disoblige}, {discommode},
{incommode}, {bother}]
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