What is "incommodious" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does incommodious mean in English? Meaning of incommodious definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "incommodious" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "incommodious": uncomfortably or inconveniently small

Adjective

  • Meaning: uncomfortably or inconveniently small
  • Example: incommodious hotel accommodations
  • Synonyms: incommodious
  • Antonyms: commodious convenient
  • Similar: cramped
  • Adjective: (of a place occupied by people) Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped. 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 7: Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar . . . was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious. 1909, Henry James, "Venice" in Italian Hours: The place is small and incommodious, the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art. 2010 June 15, Katherine Knorr, "Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow," New York Times (retrieved 19 July 2012): In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd.1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, ch. 7: Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar . . . was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious.1909, Henry James, "Venice" in Italian Hours: The place is small and incommodious, the pictures are out of sight and ill-lighted, the custodian is rapacious, the visitors are mutually intolerable, but the shabby little chapel is a palace of art.2010 June 15, Katherine Knorr, "Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow," New York Times (retrieved 19 July 2012): In this they succeeded last week, despite menacing clouds and slick pavement, filling to capacity (and until past midnight) the 1937 building’s incommodious terrace with a mostly young and fairly international crowd.Discomforting, inconvenient, or unsuitable. 1781, Samuel Johnson, "Savage" in Lives of the Poets: He was sometimes so far compassionated by those who knew both his merit and distresses that they received him into their families, but they soon discovered him to be a very incommodious inmate. 1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, ch. 52: "What a silly you must be!" a comment which Tommy followed up by seizing Dinah with both arms, and dancing along by her side with incommodious fondness. 1865, Charles Darwin, The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants, ch. 1: A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious for a twining plant.1781, Samuel Johnson, "Savage" in Lives of the Poets: He was sometimes so far compassionated by those who knew both his merit and distresses that they received him into their families, but they soon discovered him to be a very incommodious inmate.1859, George Eliot, Adam Bede, ch. 52: "What a silly you must be!" a comment which Tommy followed up by seizing Dinah with both arms, and dancing along by her side with incommodious fondness.1865, Charles Darwin, The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants, ch. 1: A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious for a twining plant.
  • Synonyms:

    annoying, awkward, cumbersome, detrimental, difficult, disadvantageous, disturbing, embarrassing, inexpedient, inopportune, pestiferous, prejudicial, remote, tiresome, troublesome, unmanageable, unseasonable, unsuitable, untimely, unwieldy, vexatious, discommoding, discommodious, unhandy,

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    incommodious in English: incommodious
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