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Peril vs Inconvenience - What's the difference?

peril | inconvenience | Related terms |

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)
  • A situation of serious and immediate danger.
  • Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
  • The perils of the jungle (animals and insects, weather, etc)
  • (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
  • Synonyms

    * danger, hazard, jeopardy, risk, threat, wathe * See also

    Derived terms

    * yellow peril

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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?"
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    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