convenient
adjectivecommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//kənˈviː.niənt//
- Canada//kənˈvi.njənt//
- Australia//kənˈviː.niənt//
- Australia/[kənˈvɪi.niənt]/
- New Zealand//kənˈviː.niənt//
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
adjective
- 1
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.
'If you please, m'm,' said Chloe at the door, 'there's the detective here again, and he would like to see the master if it's convenient.'
Some re-arrangement of equipment in the driving cars has produced a more convenient working space for the driver.
- 2
Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.
- 3
obsoleteFit; suitable; appropriate.
Feed me with food convenient for me.
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
[…] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.
Etymology
From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniēns (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveniō, convinīre (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.
Forms
- comparative
- more convenient
- superlative
- most convenient
convenient · Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
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