convenient

adj
/kənˈviːniənt/UK/kənˈvinjənt/US

Etymology

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

  1. derived from conveniēns
  2. inherited from convenient

Definitions

  1. 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.
  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. 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

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.

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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