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Inconvenient vs Disruptive - What's the difference?

inconvenient | disruptive |

As adjectives the difference between inconvenient and disruptive

is that inconvenient is not convenient while disruptive is causing disruption or unrest.

As a noun inconvenient

is an inconsistency, an incongruity.

inconvenient

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not convenient.

    • Antonyms

    * convenient

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
  • *, II.14:
    • To provide against this inconvenient , when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soulethey answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
  • (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

    • Related terms

    * inconvenience (noun) * inconveniently (adverb) ----

    disruptive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Causing disruption or unrest.
    • Children who exhibit disruptive behaviour may be expelled from school.
  • Causing major change, as in a market.
  • * 2005 , Karl D. Schubert, CIO Survival Guide (page 222)
    • companies tend to lose their leadership positions to companies that enter the market with a disruptive technology or market change.