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Inconvenient vs Inconvenience - What's the difference?

inconvenient | inconvenience |

Inconvenience is a related term of inconvenient.



As nouns the difference between inconvenient and inconvenience

is that inconvenient is an inconsistency, an incongruity while inconvenience is the quality of being inconvenient.

As an adjective inconvenient

is not convenient.

As a verb inconvenience is

to bother; to discomfort.

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) ----

    inconvenience

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being inconvenient.
  • * Hooker
    • They plead against the inconvenience , not the unlawfulness, of ceremonies in burial.
  • Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
  • * Tillotson
    • Man is liable to a great many inconveniences .
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    Synonyms

    * (something inconvenient) annoyance, nuisance

    Verb

    (inconvenienc)
  • to bother; to discomfort

    • Synonyms

    * (obsolete) discommodate

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