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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kənˈviːniənt/
• (General American) IPA: /kənˈvinjənt/
• ハイフネーション: con‧ve‧nient

形容詞

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.

   • 1957 October, “Prototype Tube Trains For London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 688:

     Some re-arrangement of equipment in the driving cars has produced a more convenient working space for the driver.

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.

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Further reading

• “convenient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “convenient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.