inconvenient

1. 1.

   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”

   Antonymsconvenient

   Similarawkward
2. 2.

   not conveniently timed

   “an early departure is inconvenient for us”

   Similarinopportune

Questions about inconvenient

What does inconvenient mean?

inconvenient means "not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inconvenient?

inconvenient has 4 syllables: in-con-ve-nient. The stress falls on "ve". In IPA it is /ˌɪnkənˈvinjənt/.

What is the opposite of inconvenient?

The recorded antonyms are convenient.

Is inconvenient a common word?

inconvenient 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 inconvenient?

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