Inconvenience

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The quality or condition of being inconvenient; want of convenience; unfitness; unsuitableness; inexpediency; awkwardness; as, the inconvenience of the arrangement. They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, . . . of ceremonies in burial. Hooker.

2. That which gives trouble, embarrassment, or uneasiness; disadvantage; anything that disturbs quiet, impedes prosperity, or increases the difficulty of action or success; as, one inconvenience of life is poverty. A place upon the top of Mount Athos above all clouds of rain, or other inconvenience. Sir W. Raleigh. Man is liable to a great many inconveniences. Tillotson.

Synonyms: Incommodiousness; awkwardness; disadvantage; disquiet; uneasiness; disturbance; annoyance.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience a neighbor.