Pronunciations (2)
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/ɪn.kəˈmɑ.də.ti/
Pronunciation notes
- General-American
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/ɪn.kəˈmɒ.dɪ.ti/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
Noun
inconvenience; trouble; annoyance; disadvantage
Usage- Archaic
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Examples
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a great incommodity to the body
buried him under a bulk of incommodities
More examples (1)
To the first I answered, I had been a true man for a long season, and therefore it could not be expected that I should now cast in my lot with thieves. Then they demanded what I would say to the second. So I told them that the place from whence I came, had I not found incommodity there, I had not forsaken it at all; but finding it altogether unsuitable to me, and very unprofitable for me, I forsook it for this way.