suited
adjUK /ˈsuːtɪd/ · US /ˈsutɪd/
Etymology From suit + -ed.
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Usually, For or an adverb, With to 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.1685, Richard Lucas, The Duty of Servants […], page 55:
- 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.1849 March 29, John Henry Newman, “[Letter to Frederick William Faber]”, in Charles Stephen Dessain, editor, The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, volume 13, published 1963, page 94:
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- 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.1958 May 23, M. F. Barbey, “Some Branch Lines in East Lincolnshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 316:
- So I heard AM radio. It seemed to me very suited for the road.1978, Edward Dorn, in Edward Dorn; Stephen Fredman, An Interview with Edward Dorn, page 38:
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Card games, Games In compounds Having the specified kind or number of suits.
- a three-suited hand
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Card games, Poker Of two or more cards Of the same suit.
- Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind
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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’.2003, Jonathan Swan, Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Fads and Cures, Ebury Press, →ISBN:
- “Them?” I pointed to a couple of top-hatted, suited men leaning against a building farther down the street.2011, Amber Kizer, Wildcat Fireflies, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 36:
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- One of the black-suited drivers nodded at his compatriots and slowly walked up to one of the men on the firing line.2017, Jesse J[ames] Holland, Black Panther: Who Is the Black Panther?, Marvel Worldwide, Inc., →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- besuited, birthday-suited, dress-suited, empty-suited, ill-suited, morning-suited, suited and booted, suited-booted, suitedness, unsuited, well-suited, well suited, zoot-suited