Definition of expedient

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Expedient (a.) Quick; expeditious.

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Happy :: Happy (superl.) Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen..
Afterthought :: Afterthought (n.) Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.
Shifty :: Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance..
Dexterous :: Dexterous (a.) Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager..
Advisable-ness :: Advisable-ness (n.) The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.
Facile :: Facile (a.) Ready; quick; expert; as, he is facile in expedients; he wields a facile pen..
Advisable :: Advisable (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.
Overagitate :: Overagitate (v. t.) To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient.
Ought :: Ought (imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed..
Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
Impolitic :: Impolitic (a.) Not politic; contrary to, or wanting in, policy; unwise; imprudent; indiscreet; inexpedient; as, an impolitic ruler, law, or measure..
Unadvisable :: Unadvisable (a.) Not advisable; inadvisable; inexpedient.
Inexpediency :: Inexpediency (n.) The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures..
Ineligible :: Ineligible (a.) Not eligible; not qualified to be chosen for an office; not worthy to be chosen or prefered; not expedient or desirable.
Disapprove :: Disapprove (v. t.) To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others..
Disapprobation :: Disapprobation (n.) The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure..
Expediment :: Expediment (n.) An expedient.
Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
Advise :: Advise (v. t.) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn..
Makeshift :: Makeshift (n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
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