incommodious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incommodious
form: most incommodious
Etymology: From in- + commodious. Compare Latin incommodus.
Senses: examples: text: Tellson's Bank by Temple Bar was an old-fashioned place, even in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty. It was very small, very dark, very ugly, very incommodious.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, “Five Years Later”, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book II (The Golden Thread), page 33:
text: 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.
ref: 1909, Henry James, “Venice”, in Italian hours, Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 36:
text: 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.
ref: 2010 June 15, Katherine Knorr, “Contemplating Art, and Its Sideshow”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2019:
glosses: Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped or small, narrow, etc.
raw_tags: of a place
examples: text: He was ſometimes ſo far compaſſionated by thoſe who knew both his merit and diſtreſſes, that they received him into their famillies, but they ſoon diſovered him to be a very incommodious inmate; […]
ref: 1783, Samuel Johnson, “Savage”, in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; with Critical Observations on Their Works, volume III, London: Printed for C. Bathurst, […] , →OCLC, page 292:
text: “[…] 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.
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Adam and Dinah”, in Adam Bede […], volume III, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book sixth, page 281:
text: A dense whorl of many leaves would apparently be incommodious: for a twining plant, and some authors have supposed that none have their leaves thus arranged; but a twining Siphomeris has whorls of three.
ref: 1865, Charles Darwin, “Part I.—Spirally Twining Plants”, in On the Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants, London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, and Williams and Norgate, →OCLC, page 12:
synonyms: word: troublesome
word: annoying
word: incommode
glosses: Discomforting, inconvenient, or disagreeable.
examples: text: In the time of this Commodus, although hee was an incommodious prince to the ſenators of Rome, yet notwithstanding there was ſome quietneſſe univerſally through the whole church of Christ from percefution, by what occaſion it is not certaine.
ref: 1610 October, John Foxe, “A deſcription of the ten fifth perſecutions in the primitiue church, with a liuely portraiture of the variety of their torments”, in The Second Volume of the Ecclesiasticall Historie, Containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs, […], 6th edition, volume II, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book VII, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus emperor, to the ſenat and people of Rome, page 46, column 2:
text: And vve may obſerve in general, that if vve can find any quality in a perſon, vvhich renders him incommodious to thoſe, vvho live and converſe vvith him, vve alvvays allovv it to be a fault or blemiſh, vvithout any farther examination.
ref: 1740, [David Hume], “Of Goodness and Benevolence”, in A Treatise of Human Nature: […], book III (Of Morals), London: […] Thomas Longman, […], →OCLC, part III (Of the Other Virtues and Vices), page 255:
glosses: Troublesome; difficult to deal with.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: incommodiously
incommodiousness
Related terms: word: incommode
word: incommodity