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

名詞

inconvenience (countable and uncountable, plural inconveniences)

1. The quality of being inconvenient.
   • [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (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.
   • 1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], London: […] B. Aylmer, […]; [a]nd W. Rogers, […], published 1696, →OCLC:

     [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, 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 (third-person singular simple present inconveniences, present participle inconveniencing, simple past and past participle inconvenienced)

1. To bother; to discomfort.
   • 1956 May, “Transport in Ulster”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:

     He declared that these drastic steps would undoubtedly inconvenience a good many people, but the alternative was bankruptcy of the Ulster Transport Authority and the breakdown of public transport services.

同意語

• (obsolete) discommodate
• discommode
• incommode
• impose

派生語

Further reading

• “inconvenience”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “inconvenience”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.