convenient
English
Etymology
From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniens (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈviːniənt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈvinjənt/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: con‧ve‧nient
Adjective
convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)
- 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.
- Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
- How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.
- (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Proverbs 30:8:
- Feed me with food convenient for me.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 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.
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Translations
of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient
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Further reading
- convenient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- convenient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin conveniens, convenientem, possibly a borrowing. First attested in 1507.[1]
Derived terms
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References
- “convenient”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading
- “convenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “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.
Latin
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