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suited

[ soo-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

appropriate for or compatible with a particular person, task, occasion, etc.; fitted:
A good writer chooses a prose style suited to the subject.
Parents can decide whether the program is suited for their child.
wearing a suit, especially of a specified kind or color (often used in combination):
At the negotiating table sat a gray-suited executive from the other company.
Who do you think the jury will believe—the suited detective, or the revolutionary anarchist?

Origin of suited¹

First recorded in 1615–25; suit + -ed ² for the adjective senses; suit + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

If well done, a video game is uniquely suited to tell the story of a television show.

But Seligman never imagined how Mitchell might put the concept to work, in part because it was so ill-suited to that purpose.

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

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.

You have waxed fat and sleek in your seneschalship; this easy life in Dauphiny appears to have been well suited to your health.

The tone is with few exceptions sweet in quality and seldom powerful, but admirably suited to the amateur.

This was his native habitat, an environment precisely suited to his peculiar talent.

The flavor is not unpleasant, but is better suited to those who prefer a mild rather than a full flavored cigar.

Be this as it may, we hardly think the Yara cigar suited to the cigarist's taste at the present time.

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