Adjective

(en adjective)

Not comfortable.

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Experiencing discomfort.

Uneasy or anxious.

Put off or disgusted.

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.