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conveniently

UK/kənˈviːnɪəntli/US/kənˈvinjəntli/
adverbB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,922 of 15,258neutral

Conveniently means in a way that suits your needs and saves trouble. Conveniently placed, conveniently forgot, conveniently located.

The second of those is the interesting one: conveniently forgot is a sneer, and putting the word in front of a verb accuses somebody of arranging their memory. It is one of the most quietly loaded adverbs in the language.

Definitions of conveniently

  1. 1adverbconvenientlyIn a way that suits your needs and saves trouble.B2

    “The hotel is conveniently located right next to the train station.”

conveniently is a manner.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    conveniēns — fit, suitable, convenient

  2. Middle English

    convenient

  3. English

    convenient

  4. English, today

    conveniently

Built from

  • convenio · Latin — to come together, suit

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

conveniently in the wild

  • The patch antenna is mainly practical at microwave frequencies, at which wavelengths are short enough that the patches are conveniently small.

    Patch antenna

  • Penn Branch and neighboring Hillcrest, Fort Dupont and Dupont Park are conveniently located close to the rapidly developing Capitol Hill and is about 15 minutes from the U.S.

    Penn Branch

  • Following the threat of legal action by Oakeshott, the text was amended to: "leave it conveniently tucked under her pillow".

    John Crace (writer)

  • In locations where buses cannot remain stationary for long, nearby but separate bus stands may be provided where other bus parking is not conveniently located.

    Bus stand

  • And Kesaria stupa is most conveniently approached by road from Darbhanga Airport via Muzaffarpur and Mehsi along National Highway 27.

    Kesaria

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the convenio family

conventionconvenientcovenant

conveniently — used about once every 2,254 pages · #6,922 · point at the bar for the others