Definitions for Fitting

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Fitting fit·ting

Spelling: [fit-ing]

IPA: /ˈfɪt ɪŋ/

Fitting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in Fitting (fgiintt).

Definitions for Fitting

noun

1. the act of a person or thing that fits.
2. an act or instance of trying on clothes that are being made or altered to determine proper fit.
3. anything provided as equipment, parts, supply, etc.
4. Usually, fittings. furniture, fixtures, etc., as of a building or apartment.
5. the manner in which a thing fits:
6. something that fits:
7. the process of fitting.

verb

1. simple past tense of fight.

Idioms

1. fit to be tied, Informal. extremely annoyed or angry:
2. fit to kill, Informal. to the limit; exceedingly:

adjective

1. suitable or appropriate; proper or becoming.
2. adapted or suited; appropriate:
3. proper or becoming:
4. qualified or competent, as for an office or function:
5. prepared or ready:
6. in good physical condition; in good health:
7. Biology. being adapted to the prevailing conditions and producing offspring that survive to reproductive age. contributing genetic information to the gene pool of the next generation. (of a population) maintaining or increasing the group's numbers in the environment.

Verb phrases

1. fit out/up, to furnish with supplies, equipment, clothing, furniture, or other requisites; supply; equip:

verb (used with object)

1. to be adapted to or suitable for (a purpose, object, occasion, etc.).
2. to be proper or becoming for.
3. to be of the right size or shape for:
4. to adjust or make conform:
5. to make qualified or competent:
6. to prepare:
7. to put with precise placement or adjustment:
8. to provide; furnish; equip:

verb (used without object)

1. to be suitable or proper.
2. to be of the right size or shape, as a garment for the wearer or any object or part for a thing to which it is applied:

Origin of Fitting

First recorded in 1525-35; fit¹ + -ing², -ing¹

Examples for Fitting

It was the epitome of Kim Kardashian, and a fitting summation of the Year of Butt.

But there was an outcry, as there has been at every fitting, because I won't wear stays.

He ought to say something about the man, but he had no idea of what was fitting!

It is not fitting for Christians to hold a festival in honor of a heathen god.

When Garfield moved to the big screen in 2004 and 2006, it was fitting for Bill Murray to replace the deceased actor.

But he only moved back a little, and went on fitting and musing.

Induction would be a fitting gesture, even now when the honor would be posthumous.

"I try to be what's fitting," said Mrs. James, complacently.

How fitting that Joe Cocker would get a little help from his friend Billy Joel.

It would be only fitting, the reductio ad absurdum of our divided age, for this election to take two extra months.