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Inconvenience vs Incommode vs Discommode vs Trouble

Inconvenienceincommodediscommodetrouble are comparable when they mean to subject to disturbance or annoyance.

Inconvenience usually suggests little more than interference with one’s plans, one’s comfort, or one’s freedom of action; it seldom carries suggestions of more than a temporary or slight disturbance or annoyance.

Incommode and, even more, discommode carry a somewhat heightened suggestion of disturbance or annoyance, but not enough to imply actual suffering or injury; rather, they connote some mental agitation (as embarrassment or vexation) or more or less disagreeable interference with one’s comfort or plans.

Trouble is often used in polite intercourse in a sense close to that of inconvenience, when it suggests even less effort or disturbance. It is, however, also used to imply serious disturbance or annoyance (as worry, deep concern, or great pains); in this sense and sometimes in the lighter sense, it is frequently reflexive.