suited
adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈsuːtɪd//
- United Kingdom//ˈsjuː-//
- United States//ˈsutɪd//
Suitable.
adjective
- 1
Suitable.
Particular Forms suited to particular occasions, I have endeavour’d to provide in this Treatise, for general ones, Morning and Evening, you may use these which follow.
In saying that London is more suited to me than Birmingham, I mean more suited to me as a missioner; therefore it would absorb my time in mission etc work, while Birmingham does not.
It follows a rather tortuous course to avoid the high ground and, from the first, was obviously more suited to be part of a main line than a purely local undertaking.
So I heard AM radio. It seemed to me very suited for the road.
- 2
Having the specified kind or number of suits.
a three-suited hand
- 3
Of the same suit.
Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind
- 4
Wearing a suit.
Skull-caps and alchemical paraphernalia surrounded the seventeenth-century quack, whereas his nineteenth-century equivalent might appear top-hatted and suited, evidently a person of learning and ‘quality’.
“Them?” I pointed to a couple of top-hatted, suited men leaning against a building farther down the street.
One of the black-suited drivers nodded at his compatriots and slowly walked up to one of the men on the firing line.
Etymology
Etymology tree English suit Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English suited From suit + -ed.
verb
- 1
Also a form of suitsimple past and past participle of suit
Forms
- comparative
- more suited
- superlative
- most suited