Discommodes

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To inconvenience or discomfort someone, disrupt regular activity, and create circumstances that impede ease or convenience
2. To cause disruptions that hinder comfort and order, affect usual routines, and impede persons' ease or convenience
3. To make someone feel uneasy or disrupt their normal comfort or routine

Etymology: "Discommodes" is the third-person singular present form of "discommode," a verb meaning to cause inconvenience to someone. The base verb takes its shape from the same pattern as its opposite, "accommodate," and it sits within a family of English words built on the Latin "commodus," meaning convenient, suitable or fitting. In that family, "commodious" (roomy, convenient) and "commodity" (something useful or marketable) both descend from the same root, so "discommode" is essentially the negative of an old word for fitness and suitability. The dis- prefix, from Latin "dis-," reverses or removes the quality of the root, so to discommode someone is to take away their ease or fitness for what they are doing. The pattern is an ordinary one in English: "dis-" attached to a Latin-derived verb gives a sense of undoing or spoiling, as in "disturb" or "disarrange."

Synonyms: disrupts, troubles, disturbs

Antonyms: comforts, facilitates, assists