incommodious
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.
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