INCONVENIENCES Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of inconvenience

as in headaches

something that is a source of irritation the inconvenience of having to walk everywhere until the car is fixed

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verb

present tense third-person singular of inconvenience

as in troubles

to cause discomfort to or trouble for he inconvenienced his sister by moving into her tiny apartment

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Recent Examples of inconveniences

Noun

The Lycra Company is taking aim at one of performance apparel’s more visible inconveniences. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026 Some critics noted the race caused inconveniences for local residents because several downtown streets had to be closed. — Keith Laing, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2026 At first, these inconveniences, along with various forms of physical discomfort, dominated my consciousness. — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2026 For Russell, those problems are not occasional inconveniences. — Reginald David, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2026 Chinese medicine taught me that our symptoms are signals, not inconveniences to silence, and that food as thy medicine, sleep, circadian rhythms, stress awareness and our daily habits can all be powerful forms of medicine. — Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 That said, there are some inconveniences around living on a remote island. — Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026 In fact, Albert Einstein's time-dilating general theory of relativity tends to be little more than an afterthought, with films highlighting the inconveniences of interstellar travel definitely in the minority. — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 1 Aug. 2026 As though anticipating ordinary inconveniences were evidence of anxiety rather than experience. — Jennifer Noyes, Air Mail, 1 Aug. 2026

Verb

On-time performance across the entire San Diego trolley system has been boosted by a year-old East County service change that inconveniences a relatively small number of riders. — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025

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Noun

Tibbetts says the fires have already created plenty of logistics headaches.

— Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
But nightmare headaches and blood pressure spikes from her teenage years came back at age 24.

— Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of headaches

Noun

But our frustrations and inconvenience pale in comparison to the sadness of those who knew the deceased or to the trauma the drivers involved experienced.

— Doug Turnbull, AJC.com, 30 Aug. 2026
One year before his triumph in the 2026 US Open, Clark missed the cut at the same tournament and took his frustrations out on the Oakmont Country Club locker room, causing enough damage that the famous club outside Pittsburgh banned him for life.

— Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of frustrations

Verb

Ivan's driver, a cheerful man in a balaclava, tells them that the bus weighs seventy thousand pounds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Its core commitments are voluntary and informed participation, minimization of harm to participants, confidentiality and prior approval by an institutional review board that weighs risk against scientific value.

— Arie Perliger, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of weighs

Noun

In March, a Jackson County judge ordered Millennia to board up the property and fix those nuisances.

— Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Sep. 2026
The number of bears killed by motor vehicle strikes, euthanized as nuisances because of conflicts with humans or poached in the Central Florida region over the past decade total about 1,900.

— Stephen Hudak, The Orlando Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of nuisances

Verb

That sequencing bothers people who’ve spent careers being told that data systems need privacy protections designed in, not bolted on after a scandal.

— Karl W. Bickel, Baltimore Sun, 25 Aug. 2026
Kurt's key takeaways What bothers me most about this scam is that criminals are going after people who may have the fewest options to protect themselves.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

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