Inconvenient Meaning
/ˌɪnkəˈnvinjənt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjnot convenient
nounAn inconsistency, an incongruity.
Sentence Examples
Without telephones, it would be inconvenient.
If it were not for the computer, how inconvenient our lives would be!
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The broken elevator made it ____ for us to carry heavy boxes to the 15th floor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It is very ____ that the only grocery store in the neighborhood is closed on Monday afternoons.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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."
— 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The broken elevator made it ____ for us to carry heavy boxes to the 15th floor.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
It is very ____ that the only grocery store in the neighborhood is closed on Monday afternoons.