different between convenient vs serviceable

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?

English

Etymology

From Middle English servisable, from Old French servisable, from servise; surface analysis service +? -able.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?v?s?bl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??v?s?bl?/

Adjective

serviceable (comparative more serviceable, superlative most serviceable)

1. Easy to service.
2. Repairable instead of disposable.
3. In condition for use; usable, functional.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose...

   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

Synonyms

• useful
• helpful

Translations

Anagrams

• receivables