Definitions for suited

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suited suit·ed

Spelling: [soo-tid]

IPA: /ˈsu tɪd/

Suited is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in suited (deistu).

Definitions for suited

noun

1. a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
2. a set of men's garments of the same color and fabric, consisting of trousers, a jacket, and sometimes a vest.
3. a similarly matched set consisting of a skirt and jacket, and sometimes a topcoat or blouse, worn by women.
4. any costume worn for some special activity:
5. Often, suits. Slang. an executive, manager, or official, especially one regarded as a faceless decision maker.
6. Law. the act, the process, or an instance of suing in a court of law; legal prosecution; lawsuit.
7. Cards. one of the four sets or classes (spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs) into which a common deck of playing cards is divided. the aggregate of cards belonging to one of these sets held in a player's hand at one time: one of various sets or classes into which less common decks of cards are divided, as lances, hammers, etc., found in certain decks formerly used or used in fortune telling.
8. suite (defs 1–3, 5).
9. the wooing or courting of a woman:
10. the act of making a petition or an appeal.
11. a petition, as to a person of rank or station.
12. Also called set. Nautical. a complete group of sails for a boat.
13. one of the seven classes into which a standard set of 28 dominoes may be divided by matching the numbers on half the face of each: a three suit contains the 3-blank, 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4, 3-5, and 3-6. Since each such suit contains one of each of the other possible suits, only one complete suit is available per game.

Idioms

1. follow suit, Cards. to play a card of the same suit as that led. to follow the example of another:
2. suit oneself, to do what one wants to do or what is best for oneself, without regard for others (often used imperatively):

adjective

1. appropriate:
2. compatible or consistent with:

Verb phrases

1. suit up, to dress in a uniform or special suit.

verb (used with object)

1. to make appropriate, adapt, or accommodate, as one thing to another:
2. to be appropriate or becoming to:
3. to be or prove satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable to; satisfy or please:
4. to provide with a suit, as of clothing or armor; clothe; array.

verb (used without object)

1. to be appropriate or suitable; accord.
2. to be satisfactory, agreeable, or acceptable.

Origin of suited

First recorded in 1615-25; suit + -ed²

Examples for suited

Our… mail carts and mobile trash barrels would have suited them fine.

He suited the action to the word, and kissed her before she knew what was about to happen.

The only member of that household I could marry is not suited to my age.

It suited his whim, and it did more than that: it gave him a chance to speak to her in his teasing way.

He believes people have cast him in a role for which he is not suited.

Young Ried did not answer promptly; he had no answer ready that suited him.

He had discovered Faust and used him when it suited his purpose.

So she began trying out the beds, but none of them suited her until she found that the seventh one was just right.

That suited us until the revelation of these alleged, awful crimes.

This suited state governments (especially conservative-led ones) just fine.