convenient

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kənˈviːnɪənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /kənˈviːnjɛnt/

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Adjective

convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)

1. Of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient.

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

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.

Antonyms

• inconvenient

Related terms

• convene
• convenience
• conveniently

Translations

of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient

• Arabic: مُنَاسِب‏‎ (munāsib), مُلَائِم‏‎ (mulāʾim)
• Armenian: հարմար (hy) (harmar)
• Basque: egoki, eroso
• Belarusian: зру́чны (zrúčny)
• Bulgarian: удо́бен (bg) (udóben), улесняващ (bg) (ulesnjavašt)
• Catalan: convenient (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方便 (zh) (fāngbiàn)

• Czech: pohodlný (cs)
• Dutch: geschikt (nl), gemakkelijk (nl), gelegen (nl)
• Esperanto: oportuna (eo)
• Finnish: mukava (fi), kätevä (fi), sopiva (fi)
• French: commode (fr)
• Georgian: მოხერხებული (moxerxebuli), მოსახერხებელი (mosaxerxebeli), შესაფერისი (šesaperisi), სათანადო (satanado), კომფორტული (ḳomporṭuli)
• German: bequem (de), einfach (de), gelegen (de), genehm (obsolete), günstig (de), passend (de), praktisch (de)
• Hebrew: נוח‏‎ (he) m (noakh), נוחה‏‎ f (nokha)
• Hungarian: kényelmes (hu)
• Icelandic: hentugur
• Interlingua: conveniente

• Irish: sásta, áiseach
• Italian: conveniente (it), comodo (it)
• Japanese: 便利 (ja) (べんり, benri)
• Korean: 편리하다 (ko) (pyeollihada), 편하다 (ko) (pyeonhada)
• Latvian: ērts
• Macedonian: зго́ден (zgóden), по́годен (pógoden), по́волен (póvolen)
• Norman: c'mode (Jersey)
• Norwegian: praktisk
• Polish: dogodny (pl)
• Portuguese: conveniente (pt), cómodo (pt) (Portugal), cômodo (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: comod (ro)
• Russian: удо́бный (ru) (udóbnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: goireasach
• Spanish: conveniente (es), cómodo (es)
• Swedish: praktisk (sv)
• Turkish: elverişli (tr), kullanışlı (tr), münasip (tr), muvâfık (tr), rahat (tr), uygun (tr)
• Ukrainian: зру́чний (zrúčnyj)
• Vietnamese: tiện lợi (vi)
• Welsh: cyfleus (cy)

Further reading

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

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Catalan

Etymology

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

Adjective

convenient (masculine and feminine plural convenients)

1. convenient

Antonyms

• inconvenient

Related terms

• conveniència
• convenir

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Latin

Verb

convenient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of conveniō