Meanings
comparative more inconvenient · superlative most inconvenient
- not convenient
Synonyms: incommodious · Antonyms: convenient
plural inconvenients
- obsoleteAn inconsistency, an incongruity.
To provide against this inconvenient, when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soule[…]they answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC - obsoleteAn inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
Synonyms & antonyms
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivenot conveniently timed
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latininconvenientem
- Middle Frenchinconvenient
- Englishinconvenient
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek ἀνεύθετος
- ἀνεύθετος (aneúthetos)not convenient
Bulgarian неудобен, притеснителен
- неудобен (neudoben)not convenient
- притеснителен (pritesnitelen)not convenient
Catalan inconvenient
- inconvenientnot convenient
Chinese Mandarin 不方便, 不便
- 不方便 (bùfāngbiàn)not convenient
- 不便 (bùbiàn)not convenient
Czech nepohodlný
- nepohodlnýnot convenient
Dutch ongemakkelijk, storend
- ongemakkelijknot convenient
- storendnot convenient
- ongelegennot convenient
- niet van pas komendnot convenient
Finnish hankala, epämukava
- hankalanot convenient
- epämukavanot convenient
- sopimatonnot convenient
French incommode, inconvenant
- incommodenot convenient
- inconvenantnot convenient
German unbequem, unpraktisch
- unbequemnot convenient
- unpraktischnot convenient
- ungünstignot convenient
- ungelegennot convenient
- unpassendnot convenient
- unangebrachtnot convenient
- inopportunnot convenient
- lästignot convenient
- unannehmlichnot convenient
Hungarian kényelmetlen
- kényelmetlennot convenient
Irish aistreánach, aistreach
- aistreánachnot convenient
- aistreachnot convenient
Italian sconveniente
- sconvenientenot convenient
Japanese 面倒な, 不便な
- 面倒な (mendō na)not convenient
- 不便な (fuben na)not convenient
- 厄介な (yakkai na)not convenient
Korean 불편(不便)하다
- 불편(不便)하다 (bulpyeonhada)not convenient
Latin incommodus
- incommodusnot convenient
Polish niewygodny
- niewygodnynot convenient
Portuguese inconveniente
- inconvenientenot convenient
Russian неудо́бный
- неудо́бный (neudóbnyj)not convenient
Spanish inconveniente, inconveniente
- inconvenientenot convenient
- inconvenientenoun
Ukrainian незру́чний
- незру́чний (nezrúčnyj)not convenient
Urdu نامناسب
- نامناسب (nāmunāsib)not convenient
Vietnamese bất tiện, mất công
- bất tiệnnot convenient
- mất côngnot convenient
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inconvenient. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inconvenient
“inconvenient.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inconvenient. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inconvenient,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inconvenient.
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