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fit, suitable, meet, proper, appropriate, fitting, apt, happy, felicitous mean right with respect to some end, need, use, or circumstance. fit stresses adaptability and sometimes special readiness for use or action.
//fit for battle suitable implies an answering to requirements or demands.
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clothes suitable for camping meet suggests a just proportioning.
//meet payment proper suggests a suitability through essential nature or accordance with custom.
//proper acknowledgement appropriate implies eminent or distinctive fitness.
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an appropriate gift fitting implies harmony of mood or tone.
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a fitting end apt connotes a fitness marked by nicety and discrimination.
//apt quotations happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate.
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a happy choice of words felicitous suggests an aptness that is opportune, telling, or graceful.
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a felicitous phrase
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14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1b(1)
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15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 2a
Noun (1)
1823, in the meaning defined above
Noun (2)
circa 1541, in the meaning defined at sense 3a
Noun (3)
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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Middle English; akin to Middle English fitten
Verb and Noun (1)
Middle English fitten to marshal troops, from or akin to Middle Dutch vitten to be suitable
Noun (2)
Middle English, from Old English fitt strife
Noun (3)
Middle English, from Old English fitt; akin to Old Saxon fittea division of a poem, Old High German fizza skein
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