incommode
5 synonyms and 5 antonyms for incommode, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To make someone feel uncomfortable or unsettled.
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. verb
To make someone feel uncomfortable or unsettled.
“She had managed to incommode and discredit that pair almost as much as any pair could be incommoded and discredited, although they were the most harmless couple in the world.”
2. verb
To cause someone trouble or get in their way.
“While incommoding the king, and apparently siding with the commons, the parlements were defending sectional interests and unleashing a crisis of legitimacy that would undermine both the monarchy and nobility.”
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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...
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