Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of expedient is as below...

Expedient :: Expedient (a.) 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..

Expediently :: Expediently (adv.) With expedition; quickly.

Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..

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..

Unexpedient :: Unexpedient (a.) Inexpedient.

Disapprobation :: Disapprobation (n.) The act of disapproving; mental condemnation of what is judged wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure..

Expediency :: Expediency (n.) The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.

Advisable-ness :: Advisable-ness (n.) The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

Resource :: Resource (n.) That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

Afterthought :: Afterthought (n.) Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.

Expedient :: Expedient (a.) Quick; expeditious.

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..

Overagitate :: Overagitate (v. t.) To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient.

Expediential :: Expediential () Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential policy.

Inexpedient :: Inexpedient (a.) Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be inexpedient at another..

Unadvisable :: Unadvisable (a.) Not advisable; inadvisable; inexpedient.

Advisable :: Advisable (a.) Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.

Expediently :: Expediently (adv.) In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.

Refuge :: Refuge (n.) An expedient to secure protection or defense; a device or contrivance.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.

Random Fonts

Most Popular