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Inconvenient vs Inappropriate - What's the difference?

inconvenient | inappropriate |

As adjectives the difference between inconvenient and inappropriate

is that inconvenient is not convenient while inappropriate is not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, and/or place.

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) ----

    inappropriate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, and/or place.
    • It is inappropriate to burp at a formal dinner.
    "While PDA or sexual irresponsibility may be considered unsuitable, it is not inappropriate for teenagers in a relationship and nearly of legal age to talk alone."

    Synonyms

    * out of line * unfit * unsuitable

    Derived terms

    * inappropriately * inappropriateness