different between auspicious vs convenient

English

Alternative forms

• auspitious (obsolete)

Etymology

From auspice +? -ious, from Latin auspicium (“augury”), from auspex (“augur”), possibly via French.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???sp???s/
• Rhymes: -???s

Adjective

auspicious (comparative more auspicious, superlative most auspicious)

1. Of good omen; indicating future success.
2. Conducive to success.

   Synonyms: favourable, favorable, promising, propitious, fortunate, lucky

3. Marked by success; prosperous.

   Synonyms: lucky, fortunate

Antonyms

• disastrous
• ruinous
• inauspicious
• ominous

Derived terms

Translations

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k?n?vi?ni?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /k?n?vinj?nt/
• Hyphenation: con?ve?nient

Adjective

convenient (comparative more convenient, superlative most convenient)

1. Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient.

   Synonyms: expedient, simple, easy

   Antonym: inconvenient

2. (obsolete) Fit; suitable; appropriate.
   • Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient.

   • 1640', Edward Reynolds, A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man

     […] continual drinking is most convenient to the distemper of an hydropick body, though most disconvenient to its present welfare.

Related terms

• convene
• convenience
• conveniently

Translations

Further reading

• convenient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• convenient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin conveniens, convenientem, possibly a borrowing (first appears in 1507).

Adjective

convenient (masculine and feminine plural convenients)

1. convenient

   Antonym: inconvenient

Derived terms

• convenientment

Related terms

• conveniència
• convenir

References

Further reading

• “convenient” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “convenient” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “convenient” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

convenient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of conveni?