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单词 inconvenient
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inconvenient

adjective
/ˌɪnkənˈviːniənt/
/ˌɪnkənˈviːniənt/
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  1. causing trouble or problems, especially in connection with what you need or would like yourself
    • an inconvenient time/place
    • That’s most inconvenient for me. I’m working that weekend.
    opposite convenient
    Extra Examples
    • She called at a most inconvenient time.
    • This is a time of the evening that is inconvenient to many viewers.
    • Would this afternoon be inconvenient for you?
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • prove
    • become
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    preposition
    • for
    • to
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    Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘incongruous’ or ‘unsuitable’): via Old French from Latin inconvenient-, from in- ‘not’ + convenient- ‘agreeing, fitting’ (from the verb convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’). Current senses date from the mid 17th cent.
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