inconvenient

adjective
🔊/ˌɪnkənˈviːniənt/
🔊/ˌɪnkənˈviːniənt/
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  1. causing trouble or problems, especially in connection with what you need or would like yourself不方便的;引起麻烦的;造成困难的
    • an inconvenient time/place不方便的时间/地点
    • That’s most inconvenient for me. I’m working that weekend.那个时间对我来说非常不合适。我那个周末要工作。
    opposite convenient
    Extra Examples
    • She called at a most inconvenient time.她在一个很不方便的时间打来电话。
    • This is a time of the evening that is inconvenient to many viewers.晚上这个时段对很多观众来说都不方便。
    • Would this afternoon be inconvenient for you?今天下午您是不是不方便?
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • prove
    • become
    adverb
    • extremely
    • fairly
    • very
    preposition
    • for
    • to
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    Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘incongruous’ or ‘unsuitable’): via Old French from Latin inconvenient-, from in- ‘not’ + convenient- ‘agreeing, fitting’ (from the verb convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’). Current senses date from the mid 17th cent.