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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?
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.
I hope that current members of Congress recall that it actually doesn’t take a lot of courage to aid those who are already powerful … but it does require some courage to champion the vulnerable and the sick and the infirm and those who often have no access to the corridors of power, i hope they understand that courage means not simply doing what is politically expedient, but doing what they believe deep in their hearts is right.
Until we know the real reasons for what happened, I consider it expedient to stop Russian flights to Egypt, above all, this concerns tourist routes.
Half of the fund for relief is a problem, even giving Boeing its due, it missed its mark because they added a new layer of confusion to expedient and efficient relief to these families.
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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