Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Suited or favorable to one's comfort, purpose, or needs: a convenient time to receive guests; a convenient excuse for not going.
- adj. Easy to reach; accessible: a bank with branches at six convenient locations.
- adj. Close at hand; near: an apartment that is convenient to shopping and transportation.
- adj. Obsolete Fitting and proper; suitable.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fit; suitable; proper; becoming: used absolutely or with to or for.
- Affording certain facilities or accommodation; commodious; serviceable; rendering some act or movement easy of performance or freeing it from obstruction: as, a very convenient staircase; a convenient harbor.
- Opportune; favorable: as, a convenient hour.
- At hand; easily accessible; readily obtained or found when wanted; handy.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Archaic Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
- adj. Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly.
- adj. Seasonable; timely; opportune.
- adj. colloq. Near at hand; easy of access.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)
- adj. suited to your comfort or purpose or needs
Etymologies
- From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniens ("fit, suitable, convenient"), present participle of convenire ("to come together, suit"); see convene and compare covenant. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Latin conveniēns, convenient-, present participle of convenīre, to be suitable, fit; see convene. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As I see it and this is not an authorized definition, ludology has become a label convenient to use when”
“Daiwa Health Development (DHD) may strengthen its hand in the market for supplements claiming immune boosting benefits with further launches of what it calls a convenient Rice Bran Arabinoxylan Compound (RBAC).”
“- I think the store that I am shopping at, although convenient, is like a Canadian Giant Eagle, and as such will have to find somewhere much cheaper.”
“Here is some fine Nanowrimo manuscript-padding advice in convenient and easy-to-digest Tweet form (a part of us just died as we wrote that) from Famous Writers, courtesy of the very erudite staff of Inkwell Bookstore Their blog is mad fab also.”
“What's convenient is Repubs selectively calling pro-choice 'murder' when they believe in the death penalty and they send tens of thousands off to war at the drop of a hat.”
“How much more convenient is a portable, and always ready foodsource?”
“How convenient is the concept of FREE food for your baby, instead of $35 cans of formula?”
“They're located on the left-hand side in convenient "click on this and you go there" format.”
“I enjoy freshwater fishing, and there are lakes (Trillium, Timothy, Hagg, etc.) within convenient driving distance from SW Portland.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘convenient’.
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Watchmen (2009)
Words from 2009 'Watchmen' film.
adversary, certitude, deterrent, stockpile, posturing, minuteman, vigilante, toss, flip, spook, carcass, tread and 174 more...
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words that are in vogue in my current lexical output.
i say these words a lot.
or i think about these words a lot.voguish, concordant, amble, moth, rollie, patois, viable, melancholy, dram, verdant, ruse, beautiful and 51 more...
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go-come words
come, welcome, venire, advent, venue, adventitious, adventure, avenue, circumvent, contravene, convene, convenient and 87 more...
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OM3 Lesson 20
throb, throbbing, sip, jaw, sharp, work in, opening, convenient, save, life, cavity, filling and 10 more...
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Fireships and Fizgigs
This list is dedicated to names for women of easy virtue (basically prostitutes and "other women"). I have resisted making such a list until now; the abundance of such terms, and the relative pauci...
lightskirt, legby, parnel, poplet, punk, shortheel, doxy, drossel, fizgig, giglot, hiren, bawd and 80 more...
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Words That I Spell Incorrectly
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I Try and Try and Cannot Spell These...
without the help of spellcheck.
Tweets
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