inconvenient

[in-kuhn-veen-yuhnt]

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adjective

not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.

inopportune; untimely: an inconvenient time for a visit.

not suiting one's needs or purposes: The house has an inconvenient floor plan.

Origin of inconvenient

1325–75; Middle English < Latin inconvenient- (stem of inconveniēns) not suiting. See in-³, convenient

Related formsin·con·ven·ient·ly, adverb

Synonyms for inconvenient

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3. annoying, awkward, bothersome.

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Related Words for inconveniently

awkwardly, inappropriately

Examples from the Web for inconveniently

Contemporary Examples of inconveniently

Inconveniently, if Yingluck stepped down and called fresh elections tomorrow, she— and Pheu Thai—would win again.
Anti-Thaksin Protesters Are Thailand’s Tea Partiers
Lennox Samuels
December 3, 2013
Inconveniently for Romney, some of those former employees have told their stories to the American people.
Paul Begala on Mitt Romney’s Epic Fail in His GOP Convention Speech
Paul Begala
August 31, 2012
This, inconveniently, makes it hard to campaign on Labour's record.
Brits Get Ready to Rumble
Alex Massie
April 5, 2010
With Osama bin Laden inconveniently dead, the party out of power needs someone to fulminate against.
The Hypocritical War on 'Illegals'
Chris Weitz
October 29, 2011

Historical Examples of inconveniently

He was inconveniently poor, he was ill, and he was in exile.
Peak and Prairie
Anna Fuller
But at least she could take a few in her pocket, though it was inconveniently small.
Susan
Amy Walton
I think that I drop in upon you as inconveniently as possible, do I not?
Charles Baudelaire, His Life
Thophile Gautier
Why was that scherzo on the music-desk, and why do its leaves turn so inconveniently?
The Catholic World, Vol. X, October 1869
Various
Does it inconveniently happen that you find you're in love with her yourself?
The Sacred Fount
Henry James

British Dictionary definitions for inconveniently

inconvenient

adjective

not convenient; troublesome, awkward, or difficult

Derived Formsinconveniently, adverb

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Word Origin and History for inconveniently

adv.

mid-15c., "wrongfully," from inconvenient + -ly (2). Meaning "with trouble or discomfort" is from 1650s.

inconvenient

adj.

late 14c., "injurious, dangerous," from Old French inconvénient (13c.), from Latin inconvenientem (nominative inconveniens) "unsuitable, not accordant, dissimilar," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + convenientem (see convenient). In early 15c., "inappropriate, unbecoming, unnatural;" also, of an accused person, "unlikely as a culprit, innocent." Sense of "troublesome, awkward" first recorded 1650s.