convenient

Etymology

From Middle English convenient, from Latin conveniens (“fit, suitable, convenient”), present participle of convenire (“to come together, suit”); see convene and compare covenant.

adj

1. Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.
   Fast food might be convenient, but it's also very unhealthy.
2. Suspicious due to suiting someone's purposes very well.
   How convenient that you caught a cold the night before your essay was due.
3. (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
   […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare. 1640, Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man