Past tense of suit
regular verb
The past tense of suit is suited. The past participle is also suited.
Forms of suit
| Base form (V1) | suit /sjuːt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | suited /ˈsuːtɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | suited /ˈsuːtɪd/ |
| Present participle | suiting |
| Third person singular | suits /s(j)uːts/ |
Suited in a sentence
- Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers.2013 August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
- Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC...
- The Ayrshire is renowned for its milk well suited to cheesemaking.From the entry Ayrshire
- Distance-vector protocols are more suited to external routing as they don't require a consistent world-view.From the entry distance vector
- That plant is best suited to equatorial climates.From the entry equatorial
Meaning of suit
- noun A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
- noun A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
- noun A dress.
Questions about the past tense of suit
- What is the past tense of suit?
- The past tense of suit is suited.
- What is the past participle of suit?
- The past participle of suit is suited.
- Is suit a regular or irregular verb?
- Suit is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: suit (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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