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inconvenient

/in-kuhn-veen-yuhnt/US // ˌɪn kənˈvin yənt //UK // (ˌɪnkənˈviːnjənt, -ˈviːnɪənt) //

不方便,不方便的,不便的,不便

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not easily accessible or at hand: The phone is in an inconvenient place.
    • : inopportune; untimely: an inconvenient time for a visit.
    • : not suiting one's needs or purposes: The house has an inconvenient floor plan.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.bothersome, troublesome

Examples

  • Crowds are inconvenient but not the raging inconvenience everyone craves at the Super Bowl.

  • When confronted with something inconvenient or troublesome in their midst — particularly such conspiracy theories — the stock response is increasingly to shrug it off or claim ignorance, no matter how implausibly.

  • If they happen to find something that doesn’t work or is inconvenient, it is not a bad thing.

  • Unfortunately, our species has a disturbing tendency to “surrender” animals to shelters when it is inconvenient to keep them.

  • Not only is this inconvenient for users, but maintaining dozens of separate websites is an administrative headache.

  • It is also true—and this is inconvenient—that the US had not been innocent in the decades leading up to 9/11.

  • His latest book is An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers The Armenians?

  • It is a horrific and inconvenient truth, but paying ransoms to free hostages invariably worsens the problem in the long-term.

  • He has struggled to keep his marriage together after confronting some inconvenient truths about himself.

  • A wine critic friend of mine asked for an interview with the winemaker but was told it was “inconvenient.”

  • The fact is, that it is somewhat inconvenient to carry books in such regions, and I did not think of bringing a Bible.

  • Aunt Ri was a privileged character, but her logical method of questioning was inconvenient.

  • When it is inconvenient to stain before the smears have dried, capsules can be shown by the method of Hiss.

  • The Bell and Tainter machine was operated by a storage battery and this was an inconvenient and expensive form of power.

  • The old method, by which a note was named from its relative place in the Perfect System, must evidently have become inconvenient.