inconvenient

Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.

inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)

1. not convenient

   Antonym: convenient

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, 2025.
• “inconvenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “inconvenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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