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SUITED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does suited mean?
• SUITED (adjective)
The adjective SUITED has 2 senses:
1. meant or adapted for an occasion or use
2. outfitted or supplied with clothing
Familiarity information: SUITED used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Meant or adapted for an occasion or use
Synonyms:
suitable; suited
Context example:
not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy
Similar:
fit (meeting adequate standards for a purpose)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Outfitted or supplied with clothing
Context example:
recruits suited in green
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
Context examples
"Thank you, sir," And Jo was quite comfortable after that, for it suited her exactly.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Particularly well suited to the analysis of biomolecules.
(Electrospray Ionization, NCI Thesaurus)
Mrs. Norris continued, It is quite delightful, ma'am, to see young people so properly happy, so well suited, and so much the thing!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
These schools are of several kinds, suited to different qualities, and both sexes.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She was a great talker upon little matters, which exactly suited Mr. Woodhouse, full of trivial communications and harmless gossip.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You were attached to each other from your earliest infancy; you studied together, and appeared, in dispositions and tastes, entirely suited to one another.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Their means were as different as their objects, and equally suited to the advancement of each.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He wanted me to go with his wife to Germany yesterday, but that would hardly have suited your plans, would it, sir?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It would have suited me in every respect.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Retaining every minute form of respect, every propriety of my station, I could still meet him in argument without fear or uneasy restraint; this suited both him and me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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