inconvenient

See also: inconvénient

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.

Adjective

inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)

1. 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

Noun

inconvenient (plural inconvenients)

1. (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] 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.

2. (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

Related terms

• inconvenience (noun)
• inconveniently (adverb)

Anagrams

• nonincentive

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconvenientem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [iŋ.kum.bə.niˈen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [iŋ.koɱ.və.niˈent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [iŋ.koɱ.ve.niˈent]

Adjective

inconvenient m or f (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)

1. inconvenient

   Antonym: convenient

Derived terms

• inconvenientment

Noun

inconvenient m (plural inconvenients)

1. downside, disadvantage

Related terms

• inconveniència

Further reading

• “inconvenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “inconvenient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “inconvenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inconvenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.

Noun

inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)

1. disadvantage; downside; negative aspect

Descendants

• English: inconvenient
• French: inconvénient

See also

• desadvantage

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French inconvénient, from Latin inconveniens.

Noun

inconvenient n (plural inconveniente)

1. inconvenience

Declension

Declension of inconvenient

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) inconvenient	inconvenientul	(niște) inconveniente	inconvenientele
genitive/dative	(unui) inconvenient	inconvenientului	(unor) inconveniente	inconvenientelor
vocative	inconvenientule		inconvenientelor