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convenience - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | availability, usefulness; useful thing |
| Synonyms: | accessibility, accessory, accommodation, advancement, advantage, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, help, life, luxury, means, ministry, promotion, relief, satisfaction, service, succor, suitability, support, use, utility, agreeableness, comforts, handiness, ministration, openness, opportuneness, receptiveness, serviceability, suitableness, time saver |
| Antonyms: | inconvenience, waste, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spare time |
| Synonyms: | chance, freedom, hour, leisure, liberty, occasion, one's own sweet time, opportunity, place, preference, spare moment, suitable time, whenever |
| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
| Synonyms: | aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence |
| Notes: | advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fitting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accessory |
| Synonyms: | appointment, attachment, component, connection, convenience, equipment, extra, furniture, instrument, paraphernalia, part, piece, trimming, unit, accouterment, furnishing |
| Main Entry: | leisure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free time and its activities |
| Synonyms: | chance, convenience, ease, freedom, holiday, idle hours, intermission, leave of absence, liberty, one's own sweet time, opportunity, pause, quiet, range, recess, recreation, relaxation, repose, requiescence, respite, rest, retirement, sabbatical, scope, spare moments, spare time, time, time off*, unemployment, vacant hour, vacation |
| Antonyms: | employment, work |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, sovereignty, suffrage, autarchy, enfranchisement, power of choice, self-determination, self-government, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint |
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
| Synonyms: | befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake*, fighting chance*, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack* |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, service, treatment, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear*, wont, worth, applicability, capitalization, exercising, mobilization, relevance, serviceability, usability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | utensil |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tool, usually for eating |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, appliance, contrivance, convenience, device, equipment, fork, gadget, implement, instrument, knife, silverware, tableware, spoon, ware |
| Main Entry: | utility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serviceableness |
| Synonyms: | account, adequacy, advantage, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, profit, service, use, usefulness, advantageousness, applicability, expediency, productiveness, relevance, serviceability |
| Main Entry: | accessibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approachability |
| Synonyms: | convenience, openness, receptiveness |
| Antonyms: | unapproachability |
| Main Entry: | helpfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistance |
| Synonyms: | aid, convenience, help, usefulness |
| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utility |
| Synonyms: | advantage, convenience, helpfulness, practicality, value, versatility, practicability, profitableness, serviceability, usability |
| Main Entry: | amenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasant thing |
| Synonyms: | advantage, betterment, comfort, convenience, enhancement, enrichment, excellence, extravagance, facility, frill, improvement, luxury, merit, quality, service, superfluity, virtue |
| Antonyms: | abomination, inconvenience |
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good feeling; ease |
| Synonyms: | abundance, amenity, bed of roses*, cheer, cheerfulness, complacency, contentment, convenience, creature comforts*, enjoyment, exhilaration, facility, gratification, happiness, luxury, opulence, pleasure, plenty, poise, quiet, relaxation, relief, repose, rest, satisfaction, succor, sufficiency, warmth, well-being, alleviation, assuagement, coziness, peacefulness, restfulness, snugness |
| Antonyms: | aggravation, annoyance, bother, distress, exasperation, irritation, torment, torture, botheration |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advisability, benefit, convenience, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, propriety, prudence, suitability, usefulness, utility, advantageousness, appositeness, aptness, desirability, judiciousness, meetness, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, rightness, utilitarianism |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | occasion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | break*, convenience, demand, excuse, incident, instant, moment, need, occurrence, opening, opportunity, possibility, season, shot*, show, time, use |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | advisability, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, fitness, harmony, justice, morality, order, rectitude, respectability, suitability, accordance, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, ethicality, expedience, legitimacy, meetness, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rightness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | impropriety, wrong, immorality, inappropriateness, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | contrivance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gadget |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, appliance, coinage, contraption, convenience, creation, device, discovery, engine, equipment, gear, gimcrack*, harness, implement, instrument, invention, machine, material, mechanism, tackle, thingamajig*, tool, utensil, widget*, brainchild, thingamabob, whatsis |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, adaptation, adequacy, aptitude, assimilation, compatibility, competence, consistency, consonance, convenience, correspondence, decency, decorum, eligibility, harmony, keeping, order, pertinence, preparedness, propriety, qualification, readiness, suitability, timeliness, accordance, admissibility, agreeableness, applicability, appositeness, aptness, auspiciousness, concurrency, congeniality, congruousness, expediency, patness, relevancy, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | inappropriateness, unsuitability |
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