Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: inconvenience
IPA transcription: [,ɪnkənv'injəns]
Pronunciations of inconvenience
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: inconvenience, incommodiousness
    Meaning: an inconvenient discomfort
  • Synonyms: troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment
    Meaning: a difficulty that causes anxiety
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: trouble, put_out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother
    Meaning: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
Usage examples
  • OF THE INCONVENIENCE OF GREATNESS
  • They were his creatures of dreams, belonging to a world above reality, above pain and inconvenience.
  • To-day with the temperature at zero one can walk about outside without inconvenience in spite of a 50-mile wind.
  • One could experience excess and satiety without the inconvenience of learning what to do with one's hands in a drawing-room!
  • In opposition to this reasoning of the Independents, many of the Presbyterians showed the inconvenience and danger of the projected alteration.
  • 'It has caused me the greatest inconvenience,' he told Mike, drifting round in a melancholy way to the Cash Department during a slack spell one afternoon.
  • He had never before supposed that, could Wickham be prevailed on to marry his daughter, it would be done with so little inconvenience to himself as by the present arrangement.
  • The time will come and is inevitably coming when all institutions based on force will disappear through their uselessness, stupidity, and even inconvenience becoming obvious to all.
  • These objects, chiefly selected by Cole, were arranged by him for exhibition in temporary buildings of such extreme and repulsive inconvenience as to bring opprobrium and ridicule upon the undertaking.
  • When they reached the spot where the Indian stood, pointing into the thicket that fringed the military road; a narrow and blind path, which might, with some little inconvenience, receive one person at a time, became visible.
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