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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Adjective
inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)
- not convenient
- Antonym: convenient
Translations
not convenient
- Belarusian: нязру́чны (njazrúčny), невыго́дны (njevyhódny)
- Bulgarian: неудобен (bg) (neudoben), притеснителен (bg) (pritesnitelen)
- Catalan: inconvenient (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不方便 (zh) (bùfāngbiàn), 不便 (zh) (bùbiàn)
- Czech: nepohodlný
- Dutch: ongemakkelijk (nl), storend (nl), ongelegen (nl), niet van pas komend
- Finnish: hankala (fi), epämukava (fi), sopimaton (fi)
- French: incommode (fr) m or f, inconvenant (fr) m
- German: unbequem (de), unpraktisch, ungünstig (de), ungelegen (de), unpassend (de), unangebracht (de), inopportun, lästig (de), unannehmlich (rare, obsolete)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀνεύθετος (aneúthetos)
- Hungarian: kényelmetlen (hu)
- Irish: aistreánach (of a place), aistreach (of a place)
- Italian: sconveniente (it)
- Japanese: 面倒な (ja) (mendō na), 不便な (ja) (fuben na), 厄介な (ja) (yakkai na)
- Kazakh: ыңғайсыз (yñğaisyz)
- Korean: 불편(不便)하다 (ko) (bulpyeonhada)
- Latin: incommodus
- Norman: înc'mode (Jersey)
- Polish: niewygodny (pl)
- Portuguese: inconveniente (pt)
- Russian: неудо́бный (ru) (neudóbnyj)
- Spanish: incómodo (es), inconveniente (es)
- Ukrainian: незру́чний (nezrúčnyj)
- Urdu: نامناسب (nāmunāsib)
- Vietnamese: bất tiện (vi) (不便), mất công
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Noun
inconvenient (plural inconvenients)
- (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC: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.
- (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconvenientem.
Pronunciation
Adjective
inconvenient m or f (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)
- inconvenient
- Antonym: convenient
Derived terms
Noun
inconvenient m (plural inconvenients)
- downside, disadvantage
Related terms
Further reading
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.
Noun
inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)
- disadvantage; downside; negative aspect
Descendants
See also
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French inconvénient, from Latin inconveniens.
Noun
inconvenient n (plural inconveniente)
- inconvenience
Declension
Declension of inconvenient