Word Meanings - INCONVENIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient. 2. Not convenient; giving trouble, uneasiness, or annoyance; hindering progress or success; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, arrangement,
Additional info about word: INCONVENIENT
1. Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient. 2. Not convenient; giving trouble, uneasiness, or annoyance; hindering progress or success; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, arrangement, or time. Syn. -- Unsuitable; uncomfortable; disaccommodating; awkward; unseasonable; inopportune; incommodious; disadvantageous; troublesome; cumbersome; embarrassing; objectionable.
Related words: (words related to INCONVENIENT)
- TROUBLER
One who troubles or disturbs; one who afflicts or molests; a disturber; as, a troubler of the peace. The rich troublers of the world's repose. Waller. - SUCCESS
1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort. - GIVES
Fetters. - INOPPORTUNELY
Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently. - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16. - PROGRESSIONAL
Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress. - PROGRESS
to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase. - HOUSEWIFE
A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good - SUCCESSLESS
Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n. - INEXPEDIENT
Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another. If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly - HOUSEWARMING
A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson. - CONVENIENTLY
In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty. - GIVING
1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving - HOUSEBOTE
Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote. - BECOME
happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional - HOUSEROOM
Room or place in a house; as, to give any one houseroom. - TROUBLESOME
Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome. This troublesome world. Book of Common Prayer. These troublesome disguises that we wear. Milton. My mother will never be troublesome to me. Pope. Syn. -- Uneasy; vexatious; perplexing; - HINDEREST
Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer. - PROGRESSION
Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - PACKHOUSE
Warehouse for storing goods. - WAREHOUSE
A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison. - POSTHOUSE
1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office. - HENHOUSE
A house or shelter for fowls. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - TRUGGING-HOUSE
A brothel. Robert Greene. - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - OVERTROUBLED
Excessively troubled. - FULL HOUSE
A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind. - WATCHHOUSE
1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup. - TIRING-HOUSE
A tiring-room. Shak. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - HOTHOUSE
A heated room for drying green ware. (more info) 1. A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened. 2. A bagnio, or bathing house. Shak. - BEADHOUSE; BEDEHOUSE
An almshouse for poor people who pray daily for their benefactors. - THANKSGIVING
1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee - WASHHOUSE
An outbuilding for washing, esp. one for washing clothes; a laundry.