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suited

adjective

  1. (cause to) be suitable for
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsuːtɪd/ / /ˈsjuː-/ / /ˈsutɪd/

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English suit English -ed English suited From suit + -ed.

  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.”

  2. 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. 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.”

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree English suit English -ed English suited From suit + -ed.

  1. simple past and past participle of suit