convenient
Meaning
- Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
- Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
- (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
Frequency
Hyphenated as
con‧ve‧nient
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kənˈviːniənt/
Etymology
From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniens (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.
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