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Definitions

convenient

[kuhn-veen-yuhnt] / kənˈvin yənt /
ADJECTIVE
appropriate, useful
Synonyms
STRONGEST
acceptable advantageous agreeable available beneficial comfortable conducive favorable good handy helpful opportune proper suitable timely user-friendly
STRONG
commodious
WEAK
accommodating adaptable adapted aiding assisting contributive decent fit fitted in public interest ready roomy seasonable serviceable suited time-saving well-planned
Antonyms
STRONGEST
bad disadvantageous disagreeable harmful hindering hurtful hurting improper inappropriate injurious inopportune mean misbehaving unacceptable unfavorable unhandy unhelpful unpleasant unsuitable useless
WEAK
awkward distant inconvenient ineffectual unadaptable unavailable unsuited unuseful
ADJECTIVE
nearby
Synonyms
STRONGEST
accessible available handy immediate
WEAK
adjacent adjoining all around at elbows at fingertips at hand central close close-at-hand close-by contiguous easy to reach in neighborhood next next door nigh on deck on tap under one's nose within reach
Antonyms
WEAK
awkward distant far out-of-the-way unavailable

Example Sentences

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Analysts are divided over whether Microsoft’s diversified business model is a long-term AI advantage or a convenient present-day excuse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

San José del Cabo, a coastal city in Mexico, is more convenient and better equipped for tourism.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

For the most part, they’re branded products manufactured to be convenient, tasty, shelf-stable and difficult to stop eating.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

John Brandler, director of Brandler Art Galleries, believes it is convenient for Banksy to remain anonymous "so he can walk down the street" without being recognised, but says the Banksy brand would survive regardless.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Then the black phone rang, ever the convenient way to end discussion in our house.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.