NOUN | state | convenience | the state of being suitable or opportune |
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attribute | convenience | the quality of being useful and convenient | |
artifact | convenience, public toilet, comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, restroom, toilet facility, wash room | a toilet that is available to the public | |
artifact | convenience, appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget | a device or control that is very useful for a particular job |
Sounds | kahnviy'nyahns | |
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Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... |
Meaning | The state of being suitable or opportune. | |
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Example | "chairs arranged for his own convenience" | |
Broader | comfort, comfortableness | A state of being relaxed and feeling no pain |
Adjectives | convenient | suited to your comfort or purpose or needs |
Meaning | The quality of being useful and convenient. | |
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Example | "they offered the convenience of an installment plan" | |
Attributes | convenient | suited to your comfort or purpose or needs |
inconvenient | not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs | |
Narrower | handiness, accessibility, availability, availableness | The quality of being at hand when needed |
opportuneness, patness, timeliness | timely convenience | |
Broader | suitability, suitableness | The quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose |
Opposite | inconvenience | The quality of not being useful or convenient |
Spanish | comodidad, ventaja | |
Catalan | avantatge, comoditat | |
Adjectives | convenient | suited to your comfort or purpose or needs |
Meaning | A toilet that is available to the public. | |
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Synonyms | public toilet, comfort station, public convenience, public lavatory, restroom, toilet facility, wash room | |
Narrower | ladies' room, powder room | A woman's restroom in a public (or semipublic) building |
latrine | A public toilet in a military area | |
men's room, men's | A public toilet for men | |
Broader | facility | Something designed and created to serve a particular function and to afford a particular convenience / convenience or service |
toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom | A room or building equipped with one or more toilets | |
Spanish | aseos, baño, evacuatorio, mingitorio, servicios, urinario | |
Catalan | bany, lavabo, lavabos, vàter |
Meaning | A device or control that is very useful for a particular job. | |
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Synonyms | appliance, contraption, contrivance, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget | |
Narrower | gadgetry | appliances collectively |
gimbal | An appliance that allows an object (such as a ship's compass) to remain horizontal even as its support tips | |
injector | A contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.) | |
mod con | modern convenience | |
Broader | device | An instrumentality invented for a particular purpose |
Spanish | adminículo, aparato, armatoste, artilugio, dispositivo, gadget, gizmo, ingenio, utensilio | |
Catalan | aparell, dispositiu, enginy, fòtil, gadget, gizmo, maquineta | |
Adjectives | convenient | suited to your comfort or purpose or needs |
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