CONVENIENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conveniently mean? 

• CONVENIENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb CONVENIENTLY has 1 sense:

1. in a convenient manner

  Familiarity information: CONVENIENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVENIENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a convenient manner

Synonyms:

conveniently; handily

Context example:

the switch was conveniently located

Antonym:

inconveniently (in an inconvenient manner)

Pertainym:

convenient (suited to your comfort or purpose or needs)

 Context examples 

The fellow was an ingenious workman, and by my instructions, in ten days, finished a pleasure-boat with all its tackling, able conveniently to hold eight Europeans.

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

It was the most conveniently organized place in the world.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To the top of the foremast, which was just lifted conveniently from the deck, I attached the rigging, stays and throat and peak halyards.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Well, as soon as you conveniently can.

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

"I hope we shall see you at Barton," added her ladyship, "as soon as you can conveniently leave town; and we must put off the party to Whitwell till you return."

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Asteroids and comets are considered more or less pristine remnants from our solar system's formation, and many meteorites are prized samples from asteroids that happen to be conveniently delivered to Earth.

(Vitamin B3 might have been made in space, delivered to Earth by meteorites, NASA)

“I am an old friend of Dr. Jekyll’s—Mr. Utterson of Gaunt Street—you must have heard of my name; and meeting you so conveniently, I thought you might admit me.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This card-room would be wanted as a card-room now; or, if cards were conveniently voted unnecessary by their four selves, still was it not too small for any comfortable supper?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Fanny was most conveniently in want of rest.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For example, fillers are often used to make pills or capsules because the amount of active drug is too small to be handled conveniently.

(Filler, NCI Dictionary)