Word Meanings - EXPEDIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient
Additional info about word: EXPEDIENT
1. Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right. It is expedient for you that I go away. John xvi. 7. Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less. Whately. 2. Quick; expeditious. His marches are expedient to this town. Shak.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EXPEDIENT)
- Advisable
- Politic
- judicious
- expedient
- desirable
- wise
- prudent
- beneficial
- profitable
- Befitting
- Fitting
- decent
- becoming
- suitable
- appropriate
- proper
- consistent
- Desirable
- Expedient
- advisable
- valuable
- acceptable
- good
- enviable
- delightful
- Device
- Artifice
- design
- plan
- stratagem
- project
- symbol
- emblem
- show
- invention
- contrivance
- cognizance
- Fit
- Decent
- befitting
- meet
- apt
- fitting
- adapted
- seemly
- decorous
- qualified
- congruous
- peculiar
- particular
- prepared
- adequate
- calculated
- contrived
- ripe
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of EXPEDIENT)
Related words: (words related to EXPEDIENT)
- SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry. - PECULIARIZE
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith. - ACCEPTABLE
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. - PROJECTION
The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction - DESIGN
drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - DESIGNATE
Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck. - ARTIFICER
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one - REVERT
To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged - QUALIFICATION
1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success; - VALUABLENESS
The quality of being valuable. - ADAPTABLE
Capable of being adapted. - RETRACTOR
One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel. - PROJECTMENT
Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - CALCULATED
1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation, - SYMBOLISM
The science of creeds; symbolics. (more info) 1. The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms. 2. A system - QUALIFIED
1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, - ATTRACTABILITY
The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones. - EMBLEMIZE
To represent by an emblem; to emblematize. - INDECOROUSNESS
The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum. - UNBECOMING
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n. - SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
The tenets of the Sadducees. - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker.