convenient

From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniens (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈviːniənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈvinjənt/

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• Hyphenation: con‧ve‧nient

convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)

1. Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.

   Synonyms: expedient, simple, easy

   Antonym: inconvenient

   Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.

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.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 30:8:

     Feed me with food convenient for me.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:4:

     Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.

   • 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:

     […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.

• “convenient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “convenient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin convenientem. First attested in 1507.^[1]

convenient m or f (masculine and feminine plural convenients)

1. convenient

   Antonym: inconvenient

• convenientment

• conveniència
• convenir

• “convenient”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “convenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “convenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

convenient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of conveniō