PRONUNCIATION:

(in-kuh-MOH-dee-uhs) 

MEANING:

adjective: Inconvenient or uncomfortable.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin commodus (convenient), from com- (with) + modus (mode, measure). Ultimately from the Indo-European root med- (to take appropriate measures), which is also the source of medicine, modern, modify, modest, modulate, discommode and incommode. Earliest documented use: 1551.

USAGE:

“An incommodious little wooden house is where this deaf teacher lived.” Tamara Eidelman; Kaluga’s Rocket Scientist; Russian Life; (Montpelier, Vermont); Sep/Oct 2007.