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Inconvenience

The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement.

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Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Difficulty 76% connected

The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Discomfort 76% connected

To discourage; to deject.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Impact 76% connected

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Ineptness 76% connected

Unfitness; ineptitude.

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Touch 76% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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Distress 76% connected

Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Straiten 76% connected

To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine.

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Inaccessibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.

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Untimeliness 76% connected

Unseasonableness.

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Derivationally related 8

Discommode 74% connected

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Discommode 74% connected

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Incommodious 74% connected

Tending to incommode; not commodious; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble; inconvenient; annoying; as, an incommodious seat;…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Incommodious 74% connected

Tending to incommode; not commodious; not affording ease or advantage; unsuitable; giving trouble; inconvenient; annoying; as, an incommodious seat;…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Inconvenient 74% connected

Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Inconvenient 74% connected

Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Troublesome 74% connected

Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Troublesome 74% connected

Giving trouble or anxiety; vexatious; burdensome; wearisome.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 6

Bother 92% connected

To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Discommode 92% connected

To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Disoblige 92% connected

To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Incommode 92% connected

To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; to discommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want of room.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Trouble 92% connected

To put into confused motion; to disturb; to agitate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Worriment 92% connected

Trouble; anxiety; worry.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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