Inconvenient means causing trouble or awkwardness. An inconvenient time, inconvenient truth, highly inconvenient.
It is mild — an inconvenience costs time and temper rather than real harm — and British speech uses it to soften complaints that are actually serious. An inconvenient truth is one that is true and unwelcome, a phrase now fixed by the film of that name. Note inconvenience as noun and verb; and that convenient originally meant fitting or agreeing, from the Latin for coming together.
1adjectiveinconvenientCausing trouble or awkwardness.
“It was an inconvenient hour — about four in the morning.”
synonyms: awkward, troublesome
inconvenient is a quality of awkwardness.
Latin inconveniens is in- plus conveniens, from convenire, to come together. Convene, convention and convenient all mean things that fit together, so inconvenient is what does not.
Latin
inconveniens
Middle French
inconvenient
English, today
inconvenient
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconveniens.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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