inconvenience

1. 1.

   to cause inconvenience or discomfort to

   “Sorry to trouble you, but...”

   Synonymstroubleput outdisobligediscommodeincommodebother

   Broaderaffect

   Narrowerstraiten

Other forms of inconvenience

plural

inconveniences·

past tense

inconvenienced·

present participle

inconveniencing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inconvenience

What does inconvenience mean?

inconvenience means "an inconvenient discomfort". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inconvenience?

inconvenience has 4 syllables: in-con-ve-nience. The stress falls on "ve". In IPA it is /ˌɪnkənˈvinjəns/.

What is another word for inconvenience?

Close synonyms include incommodiousness, troublesomeness, worriment, trouble, put out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inconvenience?

The recorded antonyms are convenience.

Is inconvenience a common word?

inconvenience is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with inconvenience?

1 word rhymes with inconvenience. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.