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Meaning of CONVENIENCE

Pronunciation:  kun'veenyuns

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a device that very useful for a particular job
  2. [n]  a toilet that is available to the public
  3. [n]  the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan"
  4. [n]  the state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience"
 
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 Synonyms: appliance, comfort station, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gismo, gizmo, public convenience, public lavatory, public toilet, restroom, toilet facility, wash room, widget
 
 Antonyms: inconvenience
 
 See Also: accessibility, availability, availableness, bathroom, can, comfort, comfortableness, device, facility, gadgetry, gimbals, handiness, injector, john, ladies' room, latrine, lav, lavatory, men's, men's room, mod con, opportuneness, patness, powder room, privy, suitability, suitableness, timeliness, toilet

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Con*ven"ience\ (?; 106), Conveniency
 
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Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: accommodate, accommodation, adaptability, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, appurtenance, auspiciousness, avail, backhouse, basement, bathroom, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit, can, chargedness, closet, comfort, comfort station, commodiousness, coziness, crapper, criticality, crucialness, cushioniness, decency, desirability, drive, ductility, earth closet, ease, easiness, engine, enginery, expedience, expediency, facility, favor, favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, fitness, fittingness, fixture, flexibility, free time, freedom, friendliness, fruitfulness, goof-off time, handiness, head, homelikeness, homeliness, homeyness, hospitality, idle hours, interest, john, johnny, johnny house, latrine, lavatory, leisure, loadedness, loo, luxuriousness, machine, machinery, malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, meetness, motive power, motor, necessary, odd moments, opportuneness, outhouse, peace, peacefulness, percentage, pliability, pliancy, point, politicness, powder room, power plant, power source, practicality, pregnancy, privy, profit, profitability, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, repose, reposefulness, rest, rest room, restfulness, retirement, rightness, ripeness, roominess, seasonableness, seemliness, semiretirement, service, snugness, softness, spare time, suitability, throne, time, time to kill, time to spare, timeliness, toilet, toilet room, untroublesomeness, urinal, use, usefulness, utility, value, warmness, washroom, water closet, WC, wieldableness, wieldiness, wisdom, worth, worthwhileness
 

 

 

 

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