Associations to the word «Inconvenient»

Wiktionary

INCONVENIENT, adjective. Not convenient.
INCONVENIENT, noun. (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
INCONVENIENT, noun. (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

Dictionary definition

INCONVENIENT, adjective. Not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs; "it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen"; "the back hall is an inconvenient place for the telephone".
INCONVENIENT, adjective. Not conveniently timed; "an early departure is inconvenient for us".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats