inconvenient
Americanadjective
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not easily accessible or at hand.
The phone is in an inconvenient place.
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inopportune; untimely.
an inconvenient time for a visit.
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not suiting one's needs or purposes.
The house has an inconvenient floor plan.
- Synonyms:
- bothersome, awkward, annoying
adjective
Other Word Forms
- inconveniently adverb
Etymology
Origin of inconvenient
1325–75; Middle English < Latin inconvenient- (stem of inconveniēns ) not suiting. See in- 3, convenient
Example Sentences
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She came to visit once or twice, always at an inconvenient time, and after her distracted daughter snapped at her during finals week junior year, she didn’t try to visit again.
From Literature
The other was a fickle thing, popping out at the most inconvenient times, rolling across the forest floor and picking up debris.
From Literature
EV haters were certainly not wrong to say the technology was underbaked, overpriced and often inconvenient.
At the weekends, she would gather with the few national-standard players in her state and do some contact work at a mutually inconvenient central location.
From BBC
“Simply because one side declares a war is over does not eliminate the inconvenient truth that the enemy always gets a vote in when a war ends,” said retired U.S.
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