expedient
tending to promote some proposed or desired object; fit or suitable for the purpose; proper under the circumstances: It is expedient that you go.
conducive to advantage or interest, as opposed to right.
acting in accordance with expediency, or what is advantageous.
a means to an end: The ladder was a useful expedient for getting to the second floor.
a means devised or employed in an exigency; resource; shift: Use any expedients you think necessary to get over the obstacles in your way.
Origin of expedient
1Other words for expedient
Opposites for expedient
Other words from expedient
- ex·pe·di·ent·ly, adverb
- non·ex·pe·di·ent, adjective
- non·ex·pe·di·ent·ly, adverb
- qua·si-ex·pe·di·ent, adjective
- qua·si-ex·pe·di·ent·ly, adverb
- un·ex·pe·di·ent, adjective
- un·ex·pe·di·ent·ly, adverb
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How to use expedient in a sentence
It was impossible not to question the stereotype to which she had been expediently reduced: the white woman from Kansas.
To this he would answer that expediently considered no husband could be better than the one he had chosen her.
The Sea-Hawk | Raphael SabatiniHaving rightly and mercifully threatened to take it, it not only rightly may take it, but expediently must.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays | Ambrose Bierce
British Dictionary definitions for expedient
/ (ɪkˈspiːdɪənt) /
suitable to the circumstances; appropriate
inclined towards methods or means that are advantageous rather than fair or just
something suitable or appropriate, esp something used during an urgent situation
Origin of expedient
1Derived forms of expedient
- expediently, adverb
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