different between seemly vs convenient

English

Etymology

From Middle English semely, semelich, semelike, from Old Norse sœmiligr (“seemly”); equivalent to seem +? -ly. Cognate with Icelandic sæmilegur (“seemly, passable”), Danish sømmelig (“seemly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?mli/

Adjective

seemly (comparative seemlier, superlative seemliest)

1. (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.

   His behavior was seemly, as befits a gentleman.

   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

Synonyms

• apposite

Antonyms

• unseemly

Derived terms

• seemlihead
• seemlily
• seemliness

Translations

Adverb

seemly (comparative more seemly, superlative most seemly)

1. Appropriately, fittingly.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].

Anagrams

• Mesley, Semley

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?