CONVENIENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does convenient mean? 

• CONVENIENT (adjective)
  The adjective CONVENIENT has 2 senses:

1. suited to your comfort or purpose or needs

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

  Familiarity information: CONVENIENT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVENIENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suited to your comfort or purpose or needs

Context example:

a convenient excuse for not going

Also:

accessible (capable of being reached)

expedient (serving to promote your interest)

Attribute:

convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)

Antonym:

inconvenient (not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs)

Derivation:

convenience (a device or control that is very useful for a particular job)

convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)

convenience (the state of being suitable or opportune)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large and roomy ('convenient' is archaic in this sense)

Synonyms:

commodious; convenient

Context example:

a commodious building suitable for conventions

Similar:

roomy; spacious ((of buildings and rooms) having ample space)

Domain usage:

archaicism; archaism (the use of an archaic expression)

 Context examples 

From this convenient retreat, the watchers were being watched and the trackers tracked.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Having a head mechanically turned, and being likewise forced by necessity, I had made for myself a table and chair convenient enough, out of the largest trees in the royal park.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Could I not come at some more convenient hour?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My Agnes is very young still; and mother and me will have to work our way upwards, and make a good many new arrangements, before it would be quite convenient.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"My dear Miss Elliot!" exclaimed Mrs Clay, lifting her hands and eyes, and sinking all the rest of her astonishment in a convenient silence.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I suspected she might be right and I wrong; but I would not ponder the matter deeply; like Felix, I put it off to a more convenient season.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No stream could be more convenient for navigation, since the prevailing wind is south-east, and sailing boats may make a continuous progress to the Peruvian frontier, dropping down again with the current.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A container designed to give out the contents in convenient or/and prescribed amounts.

(Dispenser, NCI Thesaurus)

Typically administered twice a day, insulin 70/30 controls postprandial glycemia and allows convenient mealtime dosing.

(Insulin, 70/30, NCI Thesaurus)

I think if you could both make it convenient to come with us about eight o’clock to Caulfield Gardens we might possibly get a little nearer to a solution.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)