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Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.

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inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)

1. not convenient
   Antonym: convenient

• inconvenientness

not convenient

• Amharic: የማይመች (yämaymäč)
• Belarusian: нязру́чны (njazrúčny), невыго́дны (njevyhódny)
• Bulgarian: неудобен (bg) (neudoben), притеснителен (bg) (pritesnitelen)
• Catalan: inconvenient (ca)
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 不方便 (zh) (bùfāngbiàn), 不便 (zh) (bùbiàn)
• Czech: nepohodlný
• Dutch: ongemakkelijk (nl), storend (nl), ongelegen (nl), niet van pas komend
• Finnish: hankala (fi), epämukava (fi), sopimaton (fi)
• French: incommode (fr) m or f, inconvenant (fr) m
• German: unbequem (de), unpraktisch, ungünstig (de), ungelegen (de), unpassend (de), unangebracht (de), inopportun, lästig (de), unannehmlich (rare, obsolete)
• Greek:
  Ancient Greek: ἀνεύθετος (aneúthetos)
• Hungarian: kényelmetlen (hu)
• Irish: aistreánach (of a place), aistreach (of a place)
• Italian: sconveniente (it)
• Japanese: 面倒な (ja) (mendō na), 不便な (ja) (fuben na), 厄介な (ja) (yakkai na)
• Kazakh: ыңғайсыз (yñğaisyz)
• Korean: 불편(不便)하다 (ko) (bulpyeonhada)
• Latin: incommodus
• Norman: înc'mode (Jersey)
• Polish: niewygodny (pl)
• Portuguese: inconveniente (pt)
• Russian: неудо́бный (ru) (neudóbnyj)
• Spanish: incómodo (es), inconveniente (es), desconveniente (disused), desagradable (es)
• Ukrainian: незру́чний (nezrúčnyj)
• Urdu: نامناسب (nāmunāsib)
• Vietnamese: bất tiện (vi) (不便), mất công

inconvenient (plural inconvenients)

1. (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     To provide against this inconvenient, when the Stoikes were demanded whence the election of two indifferent things commeth into our soule […] they answer, that this motion of the soule is extraorainarie and irregular comming into us by a strange, accidentall and casuall impulsion.
2. (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

• inconvenience (noun)
• inconveniently (adverb)
• nonincentive

Borrowed from Latin inconvenientem.

• IPA(key): (Central) [iŋ.kum.bə.niˈen]
• IPA(key): (Balearic) [iŋ.koɱ.və.niˈent]
• IPA(key): (Valencia) [iŋ.koɱ.ve.niˈent]

inconvenient m or f (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)

1. inconvenient
   Antonym: convenient

• inconvenientment

inconvenient m (plural inconvenients)

1. downside, disadvantage

• inconveniència
• “inconvenient”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “inconvenient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “inconvenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “inconvenient”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.

inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)

1. disadvantage; downside; negative aspect

• English: inconvenient
• French: inconvénient
• desadvantage

Borrowed from French inconvénient, from Latin inconveniens.

inconvenient n (plural inconveniente)

1. inconvenience