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incommodious
English
Etymology
in- +? commodious
Adjective
incommodious (comparative more incommodious, superlative most incommodious)
- (of a place occupied by people) Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 7:
- Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar . . . was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious.
- 1909, Henry James, "Venice" in Italian Hours:
- The place is small and incommodious, the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art.
- 2010 June 15, Katherine Knorr, "Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow," New York Times (retrieved 19 July 2012):
- In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 7:
- Discomforting, inconvenient, or unsuitable.
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, "Savage" in Lives of the Poets:
- He was sometimes so far compassionated by those who knew both his merit and distresses that they received him into their families, but they soon discovered him to be a very incommodious inmate.
- 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, ch. 52:
- "What a silly you must be!" a comment which Tommy followed up by seizing Dinah with both arms, and dancing along by her side with incommodious fondness.
- 1865, Charles Darwin, The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants, ch. 1:
- A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious for a twining plant.
- 1781, Samuel Johnson, "Savage" in Lives of the Poets:
Translations
References
- incommodious at OneLook Dictionary Search
incommodious From the web:
- what does incommodious mean
- what is incommodious nature
- what does incommodious nature mean
- what does incommodious
embarrassing
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, NYC) IPA(key): /?m?bæ??s??/
- (General American, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA(key): /?m?b???s??/
- Hyphenation: em?bar?rass?ing
Verb
embarrassing
- present participle of embarrass
Noun
embarrassing (usually uncountable, plural embarrassings)
- The action of the verb to embarrass; embarrassment.
- May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow
- It seemed, at first, to be agreed, that the King should be addressed by the Assembly; but the time of presenting, because of the present embarrassings of affairs, to be left to the Commission.
- May 11, 1715, Robert Wodrow, letter to Mrs Wodrow
Adjective
embarrassing (comparative more embarrassing, superlative most embarrassing)
- Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.
Synonyms
- awkward
- shameful
Derived terms
- embarrassingly
Translations
embarrassing From the web:
- what embarrassing thing does ralph
- what embarrassing mean
- what embarrassing punishment do i deserve
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