inconvenient

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs

   it is inconvenient not to have a telephone in the kitchen

2. 2
   adj

   not conveniently timed

   an early departure is inconvenient for us

3. 3
   noun

   An inconsistency, an incongruity.

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   not convenient

5. 5
   noun

   An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.