Inconvenience vs Irritate - What's the difference?
inconvenience | irritate | Related terms |
The quality of being inconvenient.
* Hooker
Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
* Tillotson
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to bother; to discomfort
(lb) To provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.
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*:Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
(lb) To introduce irritability or irritation in.
(lb) To cause or induce displeasure or irritation.
(lb) To induce pain in (all or part of a body or organism).
(lb) To render null and void.
:(Archbishop Bramhall)
Inconvenience is a related term of irritate.
As verbs the difference between inconvenience and irritate
is that inconvenience is to bother; to discomfort while irritate is (lb) to provoke impatience, anger, or displeasure.As a noun inconvenience
is the quality of being inconvenient.inconvenience
English
Noun
- They plead against the inconvenience , not the unlawfulness, of ceremonies in burial.
- Man is liable to a great many inconveniences .
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