Synonyms for expedient
ɪkˈspi di əntex·pe·di·ent

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1. expedient

   Synonyms:
   adequate, advantageous, beneficial, competent, effective, efficient, potent, powerful, profitable, real, serviceable, solid, sound, substantial, sufficient, useful, valid, valuable, worthy

   Antonyms:
   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 WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. expedientadjective

   a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one

   Antonyms:
   impolitic, inadvisable, inexpedient

2. expedientadjective

   serving to promote your interest

   "was merciful only when mercy was expedient"

   Antonyms:
   inadvisable, impolitic, inexpedient

3. expedientadjective

   appropriate to a purpose; practical

   "in the circumstances it was expedient to express loyalty"

   Antonyms:
   inexpedient, impolitic, inadvisable

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. expedientadjective

   Synonyms:
   fit, proper, suitable, advisable, desirable

2. expedientadjective

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, profitable, useful, for one's advantage, for one's interest

3. expedientnoun

   Synonyms:
   shift, resource, resort, contrivance, means

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "expedient":

   timely, appropriate, desirable, expeditious, convenient, expediency, opportune

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How to use expedient in a sentence?

1. Ben Carson:

   I've got to tell you something. I'm not politically correct, and I'm probably never going to be politically correct because I'm not a politician, politicians do what is politically expedient, and I want to do what's right.

2. May Nour:

   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.

3. Wesley Hunt:

   That’s not leadership, when you lead, you do what’s right, not politically expedient.

4. Publilius Syrus (c. 42 BC):

   It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.

5. Friedrich Nietzsche:

   Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.