inconvenant
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛ̃.kɔ̃v.nɑ̃/
Audio (Canada (Shawinigan)): (file) - Hyphenation: in‧cove‧nant
Adjective
inconvenant (feminine inconvenante, masculine plural inconvenants, feminine plural inconvenantes)
- improper, unseemly, indecent
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- Elle minaudait. Puis, d'un air sérieux: — C'est très inconvenant, savez-vous?
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Related terms
Further reading
- “inconvenant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012