inconvenience

English

Noun

inconvenience (plural inconveniences)

1. The quality of being inconvenient.
2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly): 

     An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic […] real kidneys […] . But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

Synonyms

• (something inconvenient): annoyance, nuisance

Translations

something inconvenient or bothering

• Catalan: inconveniència (ca) f
• Dutch: ongemak n, verstoring f
• Estonian: ebamugavus, tülin
• Finnish: hankaluus (fi), vaiva (fi), epämukavuus (fi)
• French: dérangement (fr) m

• German: Unannehmlichkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: kellemetlenség (hu), alkalmatlanság (hu)
• Italian: disagio (it) m
• Romanian: deranj (ro) n, incomodare (ro) f, neplăcere (ro) f, inconveniență (ro) f
• Spanish: inconveniencia (es) f, desconveniencia (es) f

Verb

inconvenience (third-person singular simple present inconveniences, present participle inconveniencing, simple past and past participle inconvenienced)

1. To bother; to discomfort

Translations

to bother or discomfort

• Finnish: vaivata (fi), rasittaa (fi), tuoda hankaluutta / vaivaa jollekulle

• Romanian: deranja (ro), incomoda (ro), importuna (ro)

Synonyms

• (obsolete) discommodate

External links

• inconvenience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• inconvenience in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911