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adj
Synonym of incommodious.
Inapt; unsuitable.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Synonym of incommodious.
Inconvenient; troublesome.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, obsolete, transitive
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Something which causes inconvenience or trouble; a bother, an incommodity, an inconvenience.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, obsolete, transitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make (someone) uncomfortable; to discomfort, to disturb, to trouble.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, transitive
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Synonyms: discommodate, discommode
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To cause (someone or something) inconvenience; to hinder, to impede, to inconvenience, to obstruct.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal, transitive
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Synonyms: behedge, blunt, crimp, delay, difficult, diminish, forestay, interfere, intervene, forslow, frustrate, get in the way, hamper, handicap, hinder, hold up, hurt, impair, impede, incommode, lessen, let, mar, obstruct, overslaugh, preclude, prevene, prevent, prohibit, reduce, restrict, retard, slow down, stay, stymie, thwart, thwarten, umbeset, undermine, weaken, worsen
Antonyms: abet, aid, assist, befriend, bestead, come to someone's aid, give someone a hand, grip, help, help out, lend a hand, lend a helping hand, mend, stead, succor, succour, support, sustain, relieve
verb
to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, bother
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
Narrower terms: straiten, distress
History
The adjective is a learned borrowing from French incommode (“causing discomfort; inconvenient; troublesome; undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome”), from Latin incommodus (“inconvenient; disagreeable, troublesome; unfit, unsuitable, unseasonable”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commodus (“becoming, suitable; comfortable, commodious; convenient; useful; opportune, timely; friendly, pleasant”) (from com- (a variant of con-) + modus): see further at etymology 1. The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commode (“(obsolete) convenient, opportune; suitable”). The noun is derived from the adjective.
Learned borrowing from French incommoder (“to bother, disconcert, incommode”), from Latin incommodāre, the present active infinitive of incommodō (“to inconvenience”), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commodō (“to accommodate, adapt; to bestow, provide; to hire, lend”) (from com- (a variant of con- (prefix indicating completeness or intensification)) + modō (the ablative or singular of modus (“manner, method, way; bound, limit; measure”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”))). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + commode (“(archaic or obsolete) to provide (someone or something) with an appropriate, suitable, or necessary thing; to meet the requirements of (someone or something), suit; to repair (something)”).
Across languages
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