convenient

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
20
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/kənˈviːniənt/
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/kənˈviːniənt/ · /kənˈvinjənt/

Definition of convenient

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  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.”
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adj

  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. (obsolete)Fit; 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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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.

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