inconvenient
nounEtymology Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
1
Obsolete 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 14, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
2
Obsolete An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
- Related terms
- inconvenience, inconveniently