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): /kənˈviːniənt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kənˈvinjənt/

• Audio (US):

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• Hyphenation: con‧ve‧nient

Adjective

convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)

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

   Synonyms: expedient, simple, easy

   Antonym: inconvenient

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

2. Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.

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

3. (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 30:8:

     Feed me with food convenient for me.

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:4:

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

   • 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man:

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

Related terms

• convene
• convenience
• conveniently
• supervenient

 

Translations

of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient

• Arabic: مُنَاسِب (munāsib), مُلَائِم (mulāʔim)
• Armenian: հարմար (hy) (harmar)
• Bashkir: уңайлы (uñaylı)
• 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), handig (nl)
• Esperanto: konvena, oportuna (eo)
• Finnish: mukava (fi), kätevä (fi), sopiva (fi)
• French: commode (fr), pratique (fr), convénient (fr)
• Galician: conveniente (gl)
• Georgian: მოხერხებული (moxerxebuli), მოსახერხებელი (mosaxerxebeli), შესაფერისი (šesaperisi), სათანადო (satanado), კომფორტული (ḳomporṭuli)
• German: bequem (de), einfach (de), gelegen (de), genehm (de) (obsolete), günstig (de), passend (de), praktisch (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌻𐍃 (gatils)
• Greek: βολικός (el) (volikós)

  Ancient: εὐμαρής (eumarḗs)

• Hebrew: נוח (he) m (noakh), נוחה f (nokha)
• Hungarian: kényelmes (hu)
• Icelandic: hentugur
• Interlingua: conveniente
• Irish: sásta, áiseach, acrach, áisiúil
• Italian: conveniente (it), comodo (it)
• Japanese: 便利 (ja) (べんり, benri)
• Korean: 편리하다 (ko) (pyeollihada), 편하다 (ko) (pyeonhada)
• Latin: commodus, opportūnus
• Latvian: ērts
• Macedonian: зго́ден (zgóden), по́годен (pógoden), по́волен (póvolen), удобен (udoben)
• Maltese: konvenjenti
• Norman: c'mode (Jersey)
• Norwegian: praktisk
• Plautdietsch: hendich
• Polish: dogodny (pl)
• Portuguese: conveniente (pt), cómodo (pt) (Portugal), cômodo (pt) (Brazil)
• Romanian: comod (ro)
• Russian: удо́бный (ru) (udóbnyj)
• Sanskrit: सुगम (sa) (sugama)
• Scottish Gaelic: goireasach
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: зго̏дан, у̏добан

  Roman: zgȍdan (sh), ȕdoban (sh)

• Slovak: pohodlný
• Slovene: udoben (sl)
• 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “convenient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin convenientem. First attested in 1507.

Adjective

convenient m or f (masculine and feminine plural convenients)

1. convenient

   Antonym: inconvenient

Derived terms

• convenientment

Related terms

• conveniència
• convenir

Further reading

• “convenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “convenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “convenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

convenient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of conveniō