suited

comparative more suited · superlative most suited

1. usuallySuitable.

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

   1978, Edward Dorn, in Edward Dorn; Stephen Fredman, An Interview with Edward Dorn, page 38

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   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.

   1685, Richard Lucas, The Duty of Servants […], page 55

   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.

   1849 March 29, John Henry Newman, “[Letter to Frederick William Faber]”, in Charles Stephen Dessain, editor, The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman, volume 13, published 1963, page 94

   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.

   1958 May 28, M. F. Barbey, “Some Branch Lines in East Lincolnshire”, in Railway Magazine, page 316

2. in compoundscard gamesHaving the specified kind or number of suits.

   a three-suited hand

3. card gamesOf the same suit.

   Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind

4. not comparableWearing a suit.

   “Them?” I pointed to a couple of top-hatted, suited men leaning against a building farther down the street.

   2011, Amber Kizer, Wildcat Fireflies, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 36

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   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’.

   2003, Jonathan Swan, Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Fads and Cures, Ebury Press, →ISBN

   One of the black-suited drivers nodded at his compatriots and slowly walked up to one of the men on the firing line.

   2017, Jesse J[ames] Holland, Black Panther: Who Is the Black Panther?, Marvel Worldwide, Inc., →ISBN

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of suit