convenient
Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
Example
“Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.”
Other meanings
Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
“How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.”
Fit; suitable; appropriate.
Related words
- convenientness
- disconvenient
- nonconvenient
- superconvenient
- ultraconvenient
- unconvenient
Word history
From Latin "conveniēns" (fit, suitable, convenient).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “convenient” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.