convenient
adjEtymology
From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniēns (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of conveniō, convinīre (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.
- derived from conveniēns
- inherited from convenient
Definitions
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty
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.
Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
- How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.
Fit
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.
The neighborhood
- neighborconvene
- neighborconvenience
- neighborconveniently
- neighborsupervenient
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at convenient. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at convenient. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at convenient
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA