| ADJECTIVE | all | expedient | serving to promote your interest |
|---|---|---|---|
| all | expedient | appropriate to a purpose | |
| NOUN | act | expedient | a means to an end |
| Sounds | ihkspiy'diyahnt | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... | |
| Meaning | Serving to promote your interest. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "was merciful only when mercy was expedient" | |
| Narrower | advantageous | Appropriate for achieving a particular end |
| carpetbag, carpetbagging | presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | |
| opportunist, opportunistic, timeserving | taking immediate advantage, often unethically, of any circumstance of possible benefit | |
| See also | advantageous, favorable, favourable | Giving an advantage |
| convenient | suited to your comfort or purpose or needs | |
| politic | marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness | |
| useful, utile | Of use or service | |
| Opposite | inexpedient | not suitable or advisable |
| Spanish | conveniente | |
| Nouns | expedience | taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others |
| Adverbs | expediently | in an expedient manner |
| Meaning | Appropriate to a purpose; practical. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty" | |
| Broader | politic | marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness |
| Spanish | astuto, perspicaz, sagaz | |
| Nouns | expedience, expediency | the quality of being suited to the end in view |
| Meaning | A means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | crutch | Anything that serves as an expedient |
| improvisation, temporary expedient | An unplanned expedient | |
| makeshift, stopgap, make-do | Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency | |
| pis aller, last resort | An expedient adopted only in desperation | |
| Broader | means, agency, way | How a result is obtained or an end is achieved |
| Spanish | recurso | |
| Catalan | recurs | |
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