Expedient

Quick meaning: Expedient is an adjective meaning Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.

Meaning

Suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended.

More Meanings

1. Affording short-term benefit, often at the expense of the long-term.
2. Governed by self-interest, often short-term self-interest.
3. A method or means for achieving a particular result, especially when direct or efficient; a resource.
4. (obsolete) Expeditious, quick, rapid.

Example Sentences

Most people, faced with a decision, will choose the most expedient option.

Nothing but the right can ever be the expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a greater good to a less.

Government has slowly but positively moved from an active course of following plans and policies to the easier and more expedient course of the counterpuncher.

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter willnot come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Word Forms

• expedients

Synonyms for expedient

Depending on context, synonyms include advisable, desirable, judicious, politic, prudent, tactical.

Antonyms for expedient

Common opposites include inexpedient.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include appropriate, advantageous, opportunistic, opportunist, politic, timeserving.

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