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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
Adjective
convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)
- 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.
- Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.
- (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
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.
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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)
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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)
- convenient
- Antonym: inconvenient
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Latin
Verb
convenient
- third-person plural future active indicative of conveniō