Word Meanings - INCONVENIENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies

Additional info about word: INCONVENIENCE

1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial. Hooker. 2. That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty. A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience. Sir W. Raleigh. Man is liable to a great many inconveniences. Tillotson. Syn. -- Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INCONVENIENCE)

• Annoy
• Tease
• vex
• irritate
• disturb
• affront
• molest
• pain
• disquiet
• incommode
• tantalize
• bother
• weary
• inconvenience
• plague
• discommode
• harass
• chafe
• trouble
• Detriment
• Loss
• harm
• hurt
• injury
• deterioration
• impairment
• disadvantage
• prejudice
• damage
• Trouble
• Affliction
• disturbance
• annoyance
• perplexity
• molestation
• vexation
• calamity
• distress
• uneasiness
• tribulation
• disaster
• torment
• misfortune
• adversity
• anxiety
• embarrassment
• sorrow
• misery
• grief
• depression
• difficulty
• labor
• toil
• effort

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INCONVENIENCE)

• Soothe
• compose
• please
• gratify
• gladden
• console
• elate
• comfort
• Suit
• aid
• benefit
• subserve
• assist
• help
• Compose
• calm
• allay
• appease
• soothe
• delight
• recreate
• entertain
• relieve
• refresh

Related words: (words related to INCONVENIENCE)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• SORROW
  The uneasiness or pain of mind which is produced by the loss of any good, real or supposed, or by diseappointment in the expectation of good; grief at having suffered or occasioned evil; regret; unhappiness; sadness. Milton. How great
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• LABOR-SAVING
  Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.
• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• TROUBLER
  One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.
• LABORIOUS
  1. Requiring labor, perseverance, or sacrifices; toilsome; tiresome. Dost thou love watchings, abstinence, or toil, Laborious virtues all Learn these from Cato. Addison. 2. Devoted to labor; diligent; industrious; as, a laborious mechanic.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• SORROWED
  Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. Shak.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• DISQUIETLY
  In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• LABORED
  Bearing marks of labor and effort; elaborately wrought; not easy or natural; as, labored poetry; a labored style.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• HARASS
  To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• LABOROUS
  Laborious. Wyatt. -- La"bor*ous*ly, adv. Sir T. Elyot.
• MANDELATE
  A salt of mandelic acid.
• OVERLABOR
  1. To cause to labor excessively; to overwork. Dryden. 2. To labor upon excessively; to refine unduly.
• COLABORER
  One who labors with another; an associate in labor.
• OVERTROUBLED
  Excessively troubled.
• ELABORATION
  The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables, by which a crude substance is changed into something of a higher order; as, the elaboration of food into chyme; the elaboration of chyle,