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inconvenient
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.
Adjective
inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)
- not convenient
- Antonym: convenient
Translations
Noun
inconvenient (plural inconvenients)
- (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
- (obsolete) An inconvenient circumstance or situation; an inconvenience.
Related terms
- inconvenience (noun)
- inconveniently (adverb)
Anagrams
- nonincentive
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveni?ns, inconvenientem.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /i?.kom.v?.ni?ent/
- (Central) IPA(key): /i?.kum.b?.ni?en/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /i?.kom.ve.ni?ent/
Adjective
inconvenient (masculine and feminine plural inconvenients)
- inconvenient
- Antonym: convenient
Derived terms
- inconvenientment
Noun
inconvenient m (plural inconvenients)
- downside, disadvantage
Related terms
- inconveniència
Further reading
- “inconvenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “inconvenient” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “inconvenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “inconvenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Middle French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin inconveniens, inconvenientem.
Noun
inconvenient m (plural inconveniens)
- disadvantage; downside; negative aspect
See also
- desadvantage
Descendants
- English: inconvenient
- French: inconvénient
Romanian
Etymology
From French inconvénient, from Latin inconveniens.
Noun
inconvenient n (plural inconveniente)
- inconvenience
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difficult
English
Etymology
From Middle English difficult (ca. 1400), a back-formation from difficultee (whence modern difficulty), from Old French difficulté, from Latin difficultas, from difficul, older form of difficilis (“hard to do, difficult”), from dis- + facilis (“easy”); see difficile. Replaced native Middle English earveþ (“difficult, hard”), from Old English earfoþe (“difficult, laborious, full of hardship”), cognate to German Arbeit (“work”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d?f?k?lt/
Adjective
difficult (comparative difficulter or more difficult, superlative difficultest or most difficult)
- Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
- However, the difficult weather conditions will ensure Yunnan has plenty of freshwater.
- There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, difficult world, alone.
- (often of a person, or a horse, etc) Hard to manage, uncooperative, troublesome.
- (obsolete) Unable or unwilling.
Usage notes
Difficult implies that considerable mental effort or physical skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the doer; as, a difficult task. Thus, "hard" is not always synonymous with difficult. Examples include a difficult operation in surgery and a difficult passage by an author (that is, a passage which is hard to understand).
Synonyms
- burdensome, cumbersome, hard
- see also Thesaurus:difficult
Derived terms
- difficultly
Translations
Verb
difficult (third-person singular simple present difficults, present participle difficulting, simple past and past participle difficulted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult; to impede; to perplex.
- August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson
- their Excellencies having desisted from their pretensions , which had difficulted the peace
- August 9 1678, William Temple, letter to Joseph Williamson
Further reading
- difficult in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- difficult in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
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