Inconvenience is a noun meaning an annoyance, something that gives one trouble or difficulty; a lack of convenience, a difficulty that causes anxiety

Inconvenience is a verb meaning to cause difficulty to someone or something, used often to describe for small annoyances or difficulties caused by someone.

Related noun: convenience, which means having the quality of being useful, freedom from discomfort

Related adjective convenient, which means suited to one's purpose or easy for one to do or access

Related adverb conveniently, which means in a convenient way or in a manner that is without difficulty

Synonyms:

abuse a privilege, aggravate, aggravation, ail, annoy, annoyance, anxiety, awkwardness, be the matter, beset, bother, bothersomeness, bulkiness, burden, burdening, burdensomeness, burthen, can of worms, cargo, charge, charging, clumsiness, complicate matters, concern, cross, cumbersomeness, cumbrance, deadweight, demand, difficulty, disaccommodate, disadvantage, discomfort, discommode, discommodity, discompose, disoblige, disrupt, disruption, distress, disturb, disturbance, drawback, embarrassment, encroach upon, encumbrance, evil, exaction, exasperate, exasperation, freight, freighting, fuss, futility, great ado, hamper, handicap, harass, harm, headache, hindrance, hulkiness, impediment, impedimenta, impoliticalness, impoliticness, impose on, impose upon, imposing an onus, imposition, impracticality, impropriety, inadvisability, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inauspiciousness, incommode, incommodity, incongruity, inconsiderateness, inconveniency, inconvenientness, ineptitude, inexpedience, inexpediency, infelicity, infliction, inopportuneness, inopportunity,intempestivity, interfere, intermeddle, interruption, intrusion, irk, irrelevance, irritate, lateness, laying on, load, loading, loading down, lumber, make free with, matter, meddle, nuisance, obtrude upon, obtrusiveness, onerousness, onus, overstep, pack, pain, peck of troubles, penalty, perplex, perturb, plague, ponderousness, pother, prematurity, presume on, presume upon, presumptuousness, problem, put about, put out, put to inconvenience, put to it, put to trouble, puzzle, sea of troubles, stew, take a liberty, take liberties, tasking, taxing, torment, trial, trouble, troublesomeness, try, undesirability, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unhandiness, unmanageability, unmeetness, unprofitability, unprofitableness, unpropitiousness, unripeness, unseasonableness, unseemliness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unwarranted demand, unwieldiness, unwiseness, upset, uselessness, vex, weight, weighting, white elephant, worry, worthlessness, wrongness

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