Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being inconvenient.

    Unannehmlichkeit

    неудо́бствоneudóbstvo, беспоко́йствоbespokójstvo

    незру́чністьnezrúčnistʹ, неви́годаnevýhoda, неви́гідністьnevýhidnistʹ

    an inconvenient discomfort

  2. (countable, uncountable)Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.

    the quality of not being useful or convenient

Examples

81 sentences
  1. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience.

    Я дуже перепрошую за незручності. — deniko

  2. I hope we're not inconveniencing you.

  3. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.

  4. Would it inconvenience you to go yourself?

  5. Not having a telephone is an inconvenience.

    ruБез телефона неудобно. — fjay69

    deEs ist lästig, kein Telefon zu haben. — Hans_Adler

Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
something inconvenient or bothering:
Русский
By meaning 1
something inconvenient or bothering:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
something inconvenient or bothering:

Origin

From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, i

From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).

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Forms

plural: inconveniences
Singularinconvenience
Pluralinconveniences

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
something inconvenient:annoyanceB1nuisanceB2troubleA2
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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