incommodious

C2 Topic:Describing Qualities
US /ˌɪnkəˈmoʊdiəs/ UK /ˌɪnkəˈməʊdiəs/
adj Freq #280550

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    uncomfortably or inconveniently small

    incommodious hotel accommodations

  2. 2
    adj

    Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped or small, narrow, etc.

    Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious.

  3. 3
    adj

    Discomforting, inconvenient, or disagreeable.

    He was ſometimes ſo far compaſſionated by thoſe who knew both his merit and diſtreſſes, that they received him into their famillies, but they ſoon diſovered him to be a very incommodious inmate; […]

  4. 4
    adj

    Troublesome; difficult to deal with.

    In the time of this Commodus, although hee was an incommodious prince to the ſenators of Rome, yet notwithstanding there was ſome quietneſſe univerſally through the whole church of Christ from percefution, by what occaſion it is not certaine.

Thesaurus

Synonyms
3 adj · discomforting,... annoyingincommodetroublesome
Word family
Forms incommodiousness
Derived forms incommodiouslyincommodiousness
Related forms incommodeincommodity

Etymology

From in- + commodious. Compare Latin incommodus.

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