inconvenienceとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ɪnkənˈviːnɪəns/, /ɪŋk-/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnkənˈvinjəns/, /ɪŋk-/
  • ハイフネーション: in‧con‧ve‧nience

名詞

inconvenience (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 inconveniences)

1. The quality of being inconvenient.
   • 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, J[ohn] S[penser], editor, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, OCLC 931154958, (please specify the page):

     They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.

2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     [Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences.

   • 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Part, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:

     The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding.

   • 2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly):

     An artificial kidney […] can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.

同意語

• (something inconvenient): annoyance, nuisance, trouble

動詞

inconvenience (三人称単数 現在形 inconveniences, 現在分詞 inconveniencing, 過去形および過去分詞形 inconvenienced)

1. to bother; to discomfort

同意語

• (廃れた用法) discommodate
• discommode
• incommode