convenient
adjUK /kənˈviː.niənt/ · CA, US /kənˈvi.njənt/
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.
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.'1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries:
1 more example
- Some re-arrangement of equipment in the driving cars has produced a more convenient working space for the driver.1957 October 23, “Prototype Tube Trains For London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 688:
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
Obsolete Fit; suitable; appropriate.
- Feed me with food convenient for me.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 30:8:
- Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:4:
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- […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:
- Derived terms
- convenientness, disconvenient, nonconvenient, superconvenient, ultraconvenient, unconvenient
- Related terms
- convene, convenience, conveniently, supervenient