Meaning

Suitable; proper.

Definitions by Sense

1. Suitable; proper
2. Adapted to a purpose or environment.
3. In good shape; physically well.
4. (British, informal, chiefly slang) Sexually attractive; good-looking; fanciable.
5. (obsolete) Prepared; ready.
6. (transitive) To be suitable for.
7. (intransitive) To have sufficient space available at some location to be able to be there.
8. (transitive) To conform to in size and shape.

Example Sentences

You have nothing to say about it. I'll do exactly as I see fit.

Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked?

He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.

The rest we'll leave to be examined later, if we think fit;

Sergeant Schlock has no horse, no armor, and no sword, but even the mightiest Mongol horse-warrior would see in him a fit heir.

survival of the fittest

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in.

Wading through history, he noted that some eugenicists believed that the “distinction between the fit and the unfit could be drawn along racial lines,” and others would define a person as “feeble-minded.”

Word Forms

• fitter
• fittest
• fits
• fitting
• fitted
• fit

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Use fit when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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