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): /kənˈviːnɪənt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈvinjənt/
- Hyphenation: con‧ve‧nient
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Adjective
convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)
- Of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy
- Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.
- Synonym: expedient
- (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
- Bible, Proverbs xxx
- Feed me with food convenient for me.
- Bible, Eph. v. 4
- Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.
- Bishop Reynolds
- […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.
- Bible, Proverbs xxx
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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 appears in 1507)[1].
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