different between inconvenience vs distract

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?nk?n?vi?n??ns/, /??k-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?nk?n?vinj?ns/, /??k-/
• Hyphenation: in?con?ve?nience

Noun

inconvenience (countable and uncountable, plural inconveniences)

1. The quality of being inconvenient.
   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial.

2. Something that is not convenient, something that bothers.
   • 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious

     [Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences.

Synonyms

• (something inconvenient): annoyance, nuisance, trouble

Translations

Verb

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

1. to bother; to discomfort

Synonyms

• (obsolete) discommodate

Translations

Further reading

• inconvenience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• inconvenience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin distractus, from distrah? (“to pull apart”), from dis- + trah? (“to pull”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s?t?ækt/
• Rhymes: -ækt

Verb

distract (third-person singular simple present distracts, present participle distracting, simple past and past participle distracted)

1. (transitive) To divert the attention of.
2. (transitive) To make crazy or insane; to drive to distraction.

Related terms

• distracted
• distractible
• distracting
• distraction

Translations

Adjective

distract (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Separated; drawn asunder.
2. (obsolete) Insane; mad.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 6 p. 3[1]:

     (Alone shee beeing left the spoyle of love and death,

     In labour of her griefe outrageously distract,

     The utmost of her spleene on her false lord to act)

See also

• distraught

Anagrams

• adstrict