convenient

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suited to your comfort or purpose or needs

   a convenient excuse for not going

2. 2
   adj

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

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

3. 3
   adj

   Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.

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

4. 4
   adj

   Fit; suitable; appropriate.

   Feed me with food convenient for me.

5. 5
   adj

   large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)

Etymology

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