convenient — English Dictionary

Adjective

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

   Synonyms

   expedientsimpleeasy

   Antonyms

   inconvenient

   Examples

   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.'

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   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.

   Examples

   How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.

3. Fit; suitable; appropriate.

   Usage

   • Obsolete

   Examples

   Feed me with food convenient for me.

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

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

Adjective

1. suited to your comfort or purpose or needs

   Antonyms

   inconvenient

   Examples

   a convenient excuse for not going

2. large and roomy (‘convenient’ is archaic in this sense)

   Synonyms

   commodious

   Examples

   a commodious harbor

   a commodious building suitable for conventions