convenient

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈviːnɪənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈvinjənt/
• Hyphenation: con‧ve‧nient

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convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)

1. Of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy

   Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.

   Synonym: expedient

2. (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.

• inconvenient

• convene
• convenience
• conveniently

• convenient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• convenient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

From Latin conveniens, convenientem, possibly a borrowing (first appears in 1507)[1].

convenient (masculine and feminine plural convenients)

1. convenient

• inconvenient

• conveniència
• convenir

convenient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of conveniō