suited - definition, synonyms and pronunciation

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meant or adapted for an occasion or use“a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty”“not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy”Synonyms: suitable appropriateOpposite unfitSimilar fit
outfitted or supplied with clothing“recruits suited in green”Opposite unclothedSimilar clothed, clad

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Suit transitive verb [past tense & past participle Suited; present participle & verbal noun Suiting.]

1. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word. William Shakespeare

2. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well.— John Dryden

Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits song of piety and thee.— Matthew Prior

3. To dress; to clothe. obsolete

So went he suited to his watery tomb.— William Shakespeare

4. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54