inconvenience
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4.3
- noun
- /ˌɪnkənˈviːniəns/
:
molestia
- Sorry for the inconvenience, ma'am.
- cost and inconvenience
- cause inconvenience
- expense and inconvenience
Your needs are an affront, an insult, and an inconvenience in these relationships.
- Your needs are an affront, an insult, and an inconvenience in these relationships.
- These setbacks are mere inconveniences in the grand scheme of things.
- Two batteries don't just add weight, they also add inconvenience.
- But when you have a need, you become an inconvenience.
- And nowadays we fucking hate inconvenience.
- As if it was some sort of a grandiose threat rather than a mild inconvenience for their janitor.
- Two, which I've said many times before, she reminded me that what I deal with is inconveniences, what she deals with is problems.
- And any communication with them from that point is tantamount to an inconvenience to them.
- So I think it's a balance of willing to deal with inconvenience and also willing to graciously change your mind.
- Are you reducing the friction and inconvenience that resides within the way people live or not?
- Rich, I don't want to bore you with the many inconveniences of modern life, but are you familiar with the idea that things shrink in cold water?
- Sorry for that inconvenience we back.
- Would you rather appease the inconvenience right now in the short term?
- It was like a extreme inconvenience that all of their things had burned to the ground.
- Don't be so dramatic or they react with inconvenience.
Examples
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We apologize for any inconvenience.
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Pardon me for the inconvenience.
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I think I think that it's set at a place where it is supposed to be not a huge inconvenience for the person behind you.
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We're sorry about the inconvenience, but it's a routine sort of thing.
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I apologize for any inconvenience this might have caused.
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I'm very sorry for the inconvenience, sir.
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On the other hand, the approach is costly in dollars, time, and inconvenience to students.
Academic text (1990) -
"I trust that the events of this afternoon caused you no inconvenience?" asked Helsse.
Fiction book (1993) -
Thornquist was going to be merely an inconvenience, not a major problem.
Fiction book (1992) -
We apologize for any inconvenience this change might have caused to our customers.
Synonyms
418
3.0
Something that causes annoyance or trouble
343
3.4
A thing or problem that makes it hard to reach a goal
109
9.2
A person or thing that is very annoying and difficult to deal with
99
4.1
Something that makes a plan or situation harder to deal with
62
3.6
A person or thing that annoys others and causes trouble
29
2.1
A thing that causes trouble or annoyance
22
7.7
An unexpected problem that makes a plan or situation more difficult
21
3.2
A person or thing that bothers you
11
4.1
A person or thing that is annoying and causes trouble
2
8.1
Something that makes life or an activity harder
A situation when something is inconvenient and uncomfortable to use
Something that causes trouble or makes life harder
How annoying or inconvenient something is
To cause problems, worry, or bother
Something that causes annoyance or trouble
Something that makes a task or journey harder
A state of being very hard and unpleasant to deal with
A quality that causes big change and interrupts normal activity
Antonyms
How Troublesome
Surface Forms
Morphology
inconvenience = convenience (transparent) = in + convenience
The prefix 'in-' straightforwardly negates 'convenience', yielding the meaning of lack of convenience or resulting trouble.
Etymology
Inconvenience comes from the parts in- meaning 'not' and the same root as convenient, which is about things that 'fit' or work well. So an inconvenience is something that does not 'fit' your plans and causes trouble or extra bother.