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suited

Syllables: suit·ed/ˈsuːtɪd/US/ˈsutɪd/

suited adjective: suitable. Also the simple past and past participle of suit.

Adjective

suited (comparative more suited, superlative most suited)

  1. (usually) 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
  2. (in-compounds) 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. (not comparable) 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

Also used as

suited is also the simple past and past participle of suit.

Examples of suited in a sentence

  • 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, M. F. Barbey, “Some Branch Lines in East Lincolnshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 316:
  • It seemed to me very suited for the road.1978, Edward Dorn, in Edward Dorn; Stephen Fredman, An Interview with Edward Dorn, page 38:
  • 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:

Forms of suited

comparativemore suited
superlativemost suited

Origin of suited

From suit + -ed.

Words formed from suited

Phrases with suited

Words that rhyme with suited

Questions about suited

What does suited mean?
Suited means suitable.
How do you use suited in a sentence?
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.
What part of speech is suited?
Suited is an adjective.
How do you pronounce suited?
Suited is pronounced /ˈsuːtɪd/ (UK).

Words near suited in the dictionary

  1. suitcasesful
  2. suitcasing
  3. suitcoat
  4. suitcoats
  5. suite
  6. suited
  7. suited and booted
  8. suited down to the ground
  9. suited one's book
  10. suited oneself
  11. suited the action to the word

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