Ĭn’con-vēn’ient, a.

(ĭn’kon-vēn’yent), a. [Prefix in, not, and convenient; Lat. inconveniens, It. & Sp. inconveniente, Fr. inconvenant.]

1. Not becoming or suitable; unfit; inexpedient.
2. Serving to produce inconvenience; giving trouble or uneasiness; increasing the difficulty of progress or success; incommodious; disadvantageous; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, custom, arrangement of business, and the like.

The principal sum might be called for at an inconvenient time. W. Scott.