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suited

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈsuːtɪd//
  • United Kingdom//ˈsjuː-//
  • United States//ˈsutɪd//

Suitable.

adjective

  1. 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. 2

    Having the specified kind or number of suits.

    a three-suited hand

  3. 3

    Of the same suit.

    Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind

  4. 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. 1

    Also a form of suitsimple past and past participle of suit

Forms

comparative
more suited
superlative
most suited
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).