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3 : a suitable time

4 : personal comfort : EASE

Synonyms

amenity, comfort, luxury—more at COMFORT

convenience store noun : a small market that is open long hours

con·ve·nient adjective 1 : suited to personal comfort or ease

2 : placed near at hand

— con·ve·nient·ly adverb

Synonyms

accessible, handy, reachable; also close, near, nigh; abutting, adjacent, adjoining

Antonyms

inaccessible, inconvenient, unhandy, unreachable

con·vent noun [ORIGIN: ME covent, fr. OF, fr. ML conventus, fr. L, assembly, fr. convenire to come together]

: a local community or house of a religious order esp. of nuns

— con·ven·tu·al adjective

con·ven·ti·cle noun : MEETING; especially : a secret meeting for worship

con·ven·tion noun 1 : an agreement esp. between states on a matter of common concern

2 : MEETING, ASSEMBLY

3 : an assembly of delegates convened for some purpose

4 : generally accepted custom, practice, or belief

Synonyms

[1] accord, agreement, bargain, compact, contract, covenant, deal, pact, settlement, understanding—more at AGREEMENT

[3] assembly, conference, congress, convocation, council, gathering, get-together, huddle, meeting, powwow, seminar—more at MEETING

con·ven·tion·al adjective 1 : sanctioned by general custom

2 : COMMONPLACE, ORDINARY

— con·ven·tion·al·i·ty noun

— con·ven·tion·al·ize verb

— con·ven·tion·al·ly adverb

Synonyms

current, customary, popular, standard, stock, usual—more at CURRENT

classical, customary, traditional—more at TRADITIONAL

con·verge verb con·verged; con·verg·ing : to approach one common center or single point

— con·ver·gent adjective

con·ver·gence noun : the act of converging

Synonyms

confluence, conjunction, meeting; also joining, juncture, merging, union

Antonyms

divergence

con·ver·sant adjective : having knowledge and experience — used with with

Synonyms

usually conversant with abreast, familiar, informed, knowledgeable, up, up-to-date, versed—more at FAMILIAR

con·ver·sa·tion noun : an informal talking together

— con·ver·sa·tion·al·ly adverb

Synonyms

colloquy, dialogue, discourse, discussion, exchange; also banter, cross fire, give-and-take, repartee; conference, parley, powwow; babble, chat, chatter, chitchat, gabfest, gossip, palaver, prate, prattle, rap, small talk, table talk; symposium; debate, deliberation

con·ver·sa·tion·al adjective 1 : inclined to converse : fond of or given to conversation

2 : of, for, characteristic of, or suited to conversation or oral communication

Synonyms

[1] chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative—more at TALKATIVE

[2] colloquial, informal, nonliterary, vernacular, vulgar—more at COLLOQUIAL

con·ver·sa·tion·al·ist noun : a person who converses a great deal or who excels in conversation

1converse noun : CONVERSATION

2converse verb con·versed; con·vers·ing : to engage in conversation

3converse noun : a statement related to another statement by having its hypothesis and conclusion or its subject and predicate reversed or interchanged

4converse adjective : reversed in order or relation

— con·verse·ly adverb

con·ver·sion noun 1 : a change in nature or form

2 : an experience associated with a decisive adoption of religion

Synonyms

changeover, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transformation; also shift, transition; adjustment, alteration, modification; redoing, remaking, remodeling, revamping, revision, reworking, variation; deformation, disfigurement, distortion, mutation, transmutation; displacement, replacement, substitution

1convert verb 1 : to turn from one belief or party to another

2 : to change from one form or function to another : TRANSFORM

3 : MISAPPROPRIATE

4 : EXCHANGE

— con·vert·er or con·ver·tor noun

Synonyms

make over, metamorphose, transfigure, transform; also adjust, alter, modify; redo, refashion, remake, remodel, revamp, revise, rework, vary; deform, disfigure, distort, mutate, transmute; displace, replace, substitute, supplant

2convert noun : one that is