incommode
Meanings
- To make (someone) uncomfortable; to discomfort, to disturb, to trouble.
- To cause (someone or something) inconvenience; to hinder, to impede, to inconvenience, to obstruct.
- Synonym of incommodious.
- Inapt; unsuitable.
- Inconvenient; troublesome.
- Something which causes inconvenience or trouble; a bother, an incommodity, an inconvenience.
Pronunciation
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Etymology
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)”).