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Synonyms for expedient
ɪkˈspi di əntex·pe·di·ent
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
expedient
Synonyms:
adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthyAntonyms:
abortive, baseless, bootless, deceitful, delusive, empty, fruitless, futile, idle, inconstant, ineffectual, nugatory, null, profitless, shadowy, trifling, trivial, unavailing, unimportant, unprofitable, unreal, unsatisfying, unserviceable, unsubstantial, useless, vain, vapid, visionary, worthless
Princeton's WordNet
expedientadjective
a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one
Antonyms:
impolitic, inadvisable, inexpedientexpedientadjective
serving to promote your interest
"was merciful only when mercy was expedient"
Antonyms:
inadvisable, impolitic, inexpedientexpedientadjective
appropriate to a purpose; practical
"in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"
Antonyms:
inexpedient, impolitic, inadvisable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
expedientadjective
expedientadjective
Synonyms:
advantageous, profitable, useful, for one's advantage, for one's interestexpedientnoun
Synonyms:
shift, resource, resort, contrivance, means
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "expedient":
timely, appropriate, desirable, expeditious, convenient, expediency, opportune
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#212 | real | |
#803 | sound | |
#1068 | effective | |
#1152 | appropriate | |
#1412 | useful | |
#1442 | valid | |
#2159 | solid | |
#2389 | powerful | |
#3315 | efficient | |
#3614 | sufficient | |
#4080 | valuable | |
#4434 | substantial | |
#4555 | adequate | |
#5143 | convenient | |
#6362 | timely | |
#7883 | beneficial | |
#8085 | worthy | |
#9018 | competent | |
#9037 | desirable | |
#10437 | profitable | |
#15642 | potent | |
#23212 | advantageous | |
#34267 | expedient | |
#44203 | serviceable | |
#44884 | expeditious | |
#60531 | expediency | |
#63449 | opportune |
How to use expedient in a sentence?
I pledge to you that every day I will fight for the public interest, not the corporate interest. I will not abandon any segment of American society -- whether you're gay or black or Latino or poor, or working class -- just because it is politically expedient at a given time.
Stories that are critical of Russia or are portraying Russia in an unfavorable manner are generally censored, as a result of that, it is expedient to use Russian state media sources because they're the ones portraying the( Ukraine) conflict with a more favorable eye or view from the Russian perspective.
For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.
I have young children. I would rather they know that their dad did what he felt to be right for the country, rather than what he felt to be politically expedient, i will let those chips fall, and I think the voters are smart enough to know At Rouda're trying to do what's right for the country.
One stop shop. We can do labs, we can do CT scan, physician evaluation and we can give the medications, we don’t wait for transport time. We don’t wait for the patient to get to the hospital. We get to them and treat them in the most expedient way possible.
Translations for expedient
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- وسيلةArabic
- способ, средство, целесъобразен, удобен, начинBulgarian
- formålstjenligtDanish
- Hilfsmittel, Ausweg, Nothilfe, zweckmäßig, Mittel, ratsam, Notlösung, nützlich, AusfluchtGerman
- उपायHindi
- célszerűHungarian
- espediente, escamotage, opportunoItalian
- 편리한Korean
- целисходен, целисходно средство, целесообразенMacedonian
- eenvoudig, uitgekookt, snel, uitweg, redmiddel, slimmigheidDutch
- bekvemmelighetNorwegian
- expeditive, expeditiv, expeditivă, expeditiviRomanian
- уловка, удобный, приём, простойRussian
- ändamålsenligSwedish
- münasip, yardımcı, çözüm, yerinde, uygunTurkish
- متوقعUrdu
- 权宜Chinese
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