different between inconvenient vs taxing

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French inconvenient, from Latin inconvenientem.

Adjective

inconvenient (comparative more inconvenient, superlative most inconvenient)

1. not convenient

   Antonym: convenient

Translations

Noun

inconvenient (plural inconvenients)

1. (obsolete) An inconsistency, an incongruity.
2. (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)

1. inconvenient

   Antonym: convenient

Derived terms

• inconvenientment

Noun

inconvenient m (plural inconvenients)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. inconvenience

Declension

English

Verb

taxing

1. present participle of tax

Adjective

taxing (comparative more taxing, superlative most taxing)

1. With respect to an experience: exhausting; draining.
2. Burdensome, difficult.

Translations

Noun

taxing (countable and uncountable, plural taxings)

1. The act of imposing a tax.
   • January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites

     Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]

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