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Composed in a melodious and singing style.

Convenience; accommodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [Obs.] Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.

Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.

Correspondence in parts, qualities, or operations; agreement; harmony; coherence. The melodious consent of the birds. Holland. Such is the world's great harmony that springs From union, order, full consent of things. Pope.

Freedom from discomfort, difficulty, or trouble; commodiousness; ease; accommodation. Thus necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow chairs. Cowper. We are rather intent upon the end of God's glory than our own conveniency. Jer. Taylor.

Odious; pernicious; detestable. Begin, murderer; . . . leave thy damnable faces. Shak.

Odiously; detestably; excessively. [Low]

A descending surface; a sloping place. Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters. Derham.

Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.

Worthy of being detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11.

Sweet to the ear; melodious; harmonious. Their dainty lays and dulcet melody. Spenser.

Without shaking or jolting; commodiously; as, a carriage moves easily.

Causing ease; giving freedom from care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.

Favorably; auspiciously; commodiously; as, a town fairly situated for foreign traade.

Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. "The foul with Sycorax." Shak. Who first seduced them to that foul revolt Milton.

Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.

Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak.

Hateful; hatefully bad; flagrant; odious; atrocious; giving great great offense; -- applied to deeds or to character. It were most heinous and accursed sacrilege. Hooker. How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt! Milton.

iness, or annoyance; hindering progress or success; uncomfortable; disadvantageous; incommodious; inopportune; as, an inconvenient house, garment, arrangement, or time.

In an inconvenient manner; incommodiously; unsuitably; unseasonably.