incommodious

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Uncomfortable or inhospitable, especially due to being cramped or small, narrow, etc.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • 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.
2. 2

   Discomforting, inconvenient, or disagreeable.

   • 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; […]
   • “[…] 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.
   • 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.
3. 3

   Troublesome

   Troublesome; difficult to deal with.

   • 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.

The neighborhood

• neighborincommode
• neighborincommodity