adjective
- not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
- inopportune; untimely: an inconvenient time for a visit.
- not suiting one’s needs or purposes: The house has an inconvenient floor plan.
adjective
- not convenient; troublesome, awkward, or difficult
mid-15c., “wrongfully,” from inconvenient + -ly (2). Meaning “with trouble or discomfort” is from 1650s.
late 14c., “injurious, dangerous,” from Old French inconvĂ©nient (13c.), from Latin inconvenientem (nominative inconveniens) “unsuitable, not accordant, dissimilar,” from in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + convenientem (see convenient). In early 15c., “inappropriate, unbecoming, unnatural;” also, of an accused person, “unlikely as a culprit, innocent.” Sense of “troublesome, awkward” first recorded 1650s.