different between inconvenient vs vexing

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

Etymology

From Middle English vexynge (“harassment”); equivalent to vex +? -ing.

Verb

vexing

1. present participle of vex

Noun

vexing (plural vexings)

1. vexation
   • 2002, Harold Bloom, American Women Poets, 1650-1950

     Many unkindnesses as well as (one feels) many liberties and general vexings, were required to move her to this.

Middle English

Noun

vexing

1. Alternative form of vexynge