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Inconvenient vs Incommodious - What's the difference?

inconvenient | incommodious |

As adjectives the difference between inconvenient and incommodious

is that inconvenient is not convenient while incommodious is (of a place occupied by people) uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped.

As a noun inconvenient

is (obsolete) 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.
  • incommodious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a place occupied by people) Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped.
  • * 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 7:
  • Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar . . . was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious .
  • * 1909 , , "Venice" in ''Italian Hours:
  • The place is small and incommodious , the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art.
  • * 2010 June 15, Katherine Knorr, " Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow," New York Times (retrieved 19 July 2012):
  • In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd.
  • Discomforting, inconvenient, or unsuitable.
  • * 1781 , , "Savage" in Lives of the Poets :
  • He was sometimes so far compassionated by those who knew both his merit and distresses that they received him into their families, but they soon discovered him to be a very incommodious inmate.
  • * 1859 , , Adam Bede , ch. 52:
  • "What a silly you must be!" a comment which Tommy followed up by seizing Dinah with both arms, and dancing along by her side with incommodious fondness.
  • * 1865 , , The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants , ch. 1:
  • A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious for a twining plant.

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