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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
convenient
adj
  1. suited to your comfort or purpose or needs; "a convenient excuse for not going"
    Antonym(s): inconvenient
  2. large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense); "a commodious harbor"; "a commodious building suitable for conventions"
    Synonym(s): commodious, convenient
    Antonym(s): incommodious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Convenient \Con*ven"ient\ (?; 277), a. [L. conveniens, -entis,
      suitable, p. pr. of convenire to be suitable, to come. See
      {Convene}, v. i.]
      1. Fit or adapted; suitable; proper; becoming; appropriate.
            [Archaic]
  
                     Feed me with food convenient for me.   --Prov. xxx.
                                                                              8.
  
                     Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor
                     jesting, which are not convenient.      --Eph. v. 4.
  
      2. Affording accommodation or advantage; well adapted to use;
            handly; as, a convenient house; convenient implements or
            tools.
  
      3. Seasonable; timely; opportune; as, a convenient occasion;
            a convenient season. --Acts xxiv. 25.
  
      4. Near at hand; easy of access. [Colloq.]
  
                     Hereties used to be brought thither, convenient for
                     burning.                                             --Thackeray.
  
      Syn: Fit; suitable; proper; adapted; fitted; suited; handly;
               commodious.
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