Convenient Definition

kən-vēnyənt
adjective
Adding to one's comfort; easy to do, use, or get to; causing little trouble or work; handy.
Webster's New World
Easily accessible (to); near (to)
Webster's New World
Close at hand; near.
An apartment that is convenient to transportation.
American Heritage
Appropriate; suitable.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Convenient

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin conveniēns convenient- present participle of convenīre to be suitable, fit convene

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Convenient Sentence Examples

  • Put things where they will be most convenient for you.

  • A " Geyser " is a very convenient form of apparatus for heating a quantity of water in a short time.

  • The chief drawback to type A is that the errors of the screw are liable to change by wear, otherwise the apparatus, as made and used at Potsdam, is, on the whole, a convenient and accurate one.

  • It is convenient to distinguish buds that give rise to polyps from those that form medusae.

  • These courts were convenient, since it was the custom to appoint delegates resident in the neighbourhood, and the power of sub-delegation, general or limited, simplified questions of distance.

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Words Starting With

CCOCON

Words Ending With

TNTENT

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

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