Peril vs Inconvenience - What's the difference?
peril | inconvenience | Related terms |
A situation of serious and immediate danger.
Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
(insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
To cause to be in danger; to imperil.
* 1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XIV:
*:"I will have nothing to do with this matter, whatever it is. Do you think I am going to peril my reputation for you?"
The quality of being inconvenient.
* Hooker
Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
* Tillotson
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to bother; to discomfort
Peril is a related term of inconvenience.
As nouns the difference between peril and inconvenience
is that peril is peril, danger while inconvenience is the quality of being inconvenient.As a verb inconvenience is
to bother; to discomfort.peril
English
Noun
(en noun)- The perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc)
Synonyms
* danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk, threat, wathe * See alsoDerived terms
* yellow perilVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
* ----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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