"inconvenient" meaning in English

See inconvenient in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: inconvenient [positive], more inconvenient [comparative], most inconvenient [superlative]
Etymology: in- + convenient Etymology templates: {{ety-prefix|in|convenient}} in- + convenient Head templates: {{adj|more=true}} [POS TABLE]
  1. If a task is inconvenient to do, it is not convenient to do.
    Sense id: simple-inconvenient-en-adj-YZmqJlRx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Categories (other): Terms prefixed with in-
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