Definition of Convenient

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Convenient

Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.

Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use; handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or tools.

Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion; a convenient season.

Near at hand; easy of access.

Related Definitions:

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Convenient Quotations

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob Dylan

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
Ambrose Bierce

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.
Yasser Arafat

Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
Ovid

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.
Tom Hanks

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.
Ninon de Lenclos

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Robert M. Pirsig

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.
Evelyn Waugh

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Alfred Marshall

Convenient Translations

convenient in Dutch is doelmatig, gemakkelijk, geschikt
convenient in French is opportun
convenient in German is bequem, komfortabel, geeignete
convenient in Italian is vantaggioso, utilitario
convenient in Latin is opportunus
convenient in Norwegian is bekvemt, passende
convenient in Portuguese is conveniente
convenient in Spanish is practico, provechoso

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