Suited

/ˈsuːtɪd/ · adjective

Meaning

(usually with to, for or an adverb) Suitable..

Definitions by Sense

1. (usually with to, for or an adverb) Suitable.
2. (card games, in combination) Having the specified kind or number of suits.
3. (poker, of two or more cards) Of the same suit.
4. (not comparable) Wearing a suit.
5. simple past and past participle of suit

Example Sentences

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.

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.

So I heard AM radio. It seemed to me very suited for the road.

a three-suited hand

Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind

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.

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Word Forms

• more suited
• most suited

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