convenient

What it means

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

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

   2 more examples

   'If you please, m'm,' said Chloe at the door, 'there's the detective here again, and he would like to see the master if it's convenient.'

   1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

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

   1957 October 28, “Prototype Tube Trains For London Transport”, in Railway Magazine, page 688

   Synonyms: expedient, simple, easy · Antonyms: inconvenient

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. obsoleteFit; suitable; appropriate.

   Feed me with food convenient for me.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 30:8

   2 more examples

   Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.

   1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ephesians 5:4

   […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.

   1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man

In a sentence

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

Where it comes from

1. Latinconveniēns“fit, suitable, convenient”
2. Middle Englishconvenient
3. Englishconvenient

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