inconvenience | | |
n. (state) | 1. incommodiousness, inconvenience | an inconvenient discomfort. |
| ~ discomfort, uncomfortableness | the state of being tense and feeling pain. |
n. (attribute) | 2. inconvenience, troublesomeness, worriment | a difficulty that causes anxiety. |
| ~ difficultness, difficulty | the quality of being difficult.; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb" |
| ~ cumbersomeness, unwieldiness, awkwardness | trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape.; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano" |
| ~ flea bite | a very minor inconvenience. |
| ~ fly in the ointment | an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something. |
| ~ unwieldiness | the quality of being difficult to direct or control by reason of complexity.; "avoiding the unwieldiness of formal legal processes"; "the onset of unwieldiness and bureaucracy in large organizations" |
n. (attribute) | 3. inconvenience | the quality of not being useful or convenient. |
| ~ unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness | the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose. |
| ~ inaccessibility, unavailability | the quality of not being available when needed. |
| ~ inopportuneness, untimeliness | the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time. |
v. (social) | 4. bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, inconvenience, put out, trouble | to cause inconvenience or discomfort to.; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." |
| ~ affect, bear upon, bear on, impact, touch on, touch | have an effect upon.; "Will the new rules affect me?" |
| ~ distress, straiten | bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship. |
nuisance | | |
n. (cognition) | 1. nuisance | (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive. |
| ~ pain in the ass, bother, botheration, pain in the neck, infliction, annoyance, pain | something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction" |
| ~ abatable nuisance | a nuisance that can remedied (suppressed or extinguished or rendered harmless).; "the continued existence of an abatable nuisance is not authorized under the law" |
| ~ attractive nuisance | anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm.; "their swimming pool is an attractive nuisance; they should fence it in" |
| ~ mixed nuisance | a nuisance that is both a public nuisance and a private nuisance at the same time. |
| ~ private nuisance | a nuisance that interferes with your interest in and private use and enjoyment of your land. |
| ~ common nuisance, public nuisance | a nuisance that unreasonably interferes with a right that is common to the general public.; "a public nuisance offends the public at large" |
| ~ law, jurisprudence | the collection of rules imposed by authority.; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" |
n. (person) | 2. nuisance, pain, pain in the neck | a bothersome annoying person.; "that kid is a terrible pain" |
| ~ disagreeable person, unpleasant person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable. |
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