2. hospitalization, institutionalization; incapacitation, bed rest.
convalescent, adj. 1. recuperating, recovering, improving, getting well or better.
2. recuperative, recovery; for the ill, sick person's; rehabilitative, remedial, curative, treatment,
convene, v. 1. assemble, congregate, meet, collect, gather, gather together, forgather, muster; sit, hold a meeting or session.
2. convoke, call together, bring together, round up, rally; summon, call for, send for; summons, cite, subpoena, serve.
convenience, n. 1. expedience, utility, usefulness, serviceableness, adaptability, accessibility, handiness; suitability, appropriateness, fitness, fittingness; timeliness, seasonableness, opportuneness, favorableness, propitiousness.
2. leisure, ease, freedom; free time, spare time, spare moment, vacant hour, suitable opportunity.
3. advantage, accommodation, service, use, avail, profit.
4. facility, appliance, amenity, appurtenance, mechanical aid.
convenient, adj. 1. expedient, advantageous, beneficial; useful, of use, helpful, serviceable, adapted, suitable; opportune, timely, well-timed, seasonable.
2. handy, at hand, within reach, at one's fingertips; nearby, propinquant, easily accessible, just around the corner.
convent, n. 1. nunnery, motherhouse, novitiate; religious community, abbey, priory, cloister, cenoby; religious life, religion, sisterhood, nunhood, nunship.
2. See - monastery (def. 1). convention, n. 1. meeting, gathering, U.S. Pol. caucus; assembly, assemblage, congregation; congress, convocation, council; diet, synod, conclave; conference, parley, discussion.
2. contract, compact, agreement; treaty, covenant, concordat, entente; arrangement, understanding; bargain, deal, pact.
3. conventionality, custom, orthodoxy, tradition; propriety, etiquette, formality, protocol; punctilio.
conventional, adj. 1. usual, customary, habitual, wonted; accustomed, normal, standard, regular, routine; traditional, tradition-bound, orthodox; formal, decorous, academic, methodical, rigid, uncompromising, canonical; conformist, conservative, SI. uptight, SI. button-down, SI. square, SI. straight, SI. straight-arrow.
2. commonplace, common, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, prosaic; everyday, unoriginal, pedestrian, middlebrow; trite, clichd, stereotyped, hackneyed; bromid-ic, platitudinous,
converge, v. 1. meet, intersect, join, blend together, flow into one another, unite, become one; focus, concentrate, collect, group; come together, merge, coincide, concur, correspond; approach, close in on, come closer to, draw together, center, focalize.
2. work towards a common goal, conspire, cooperate, combine efforts, work together,
convergence, n. convergency, coming together, merging, coincidence, concurrence, correspondence; concourse, conflux, confluence; meeting, intersection, corner, junction, juncture, joint; connection, joining, blending together, union, approach, centering, focali-zation, focus, concentration, collection, grouping,
convergent, adj. converging, intersecting, concurrent, merging, blending, flowing together, confluent; meeting, joining, connecting, connective, conjunctive, junctional, approaching, centering, centripedal.
conversable, adj. 1. agreeable, obliging, accommodating, amenable, complaisant, complacent; acces-