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Answer for the clue "Fitting, apt ", 8 letters:
suitable

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Word definitions for suitable in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from suit (v.) + -able . Earlier suit-like (1560s); suitly (mid-15c.). Related: Suitably ; suitableness .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. suitable for the desired purpose; "Is this a suitable dress for the office?" meant or adapted for an occasion or use; "a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty"; "not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy" [syn: appropriate , suited ] appropriate ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suitable \Suit"a*ble\, a. Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness , n. -- Suit"a*bly , adv. Syn: Proper; fitting; becoming; ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a suitable donor ▪ After a 10-month wait, a suitable donor was found. a suitable gift ▪ What do you think would be a suitable gift for a 10-year-old boy? a suitable vacancy ▪ We will keep your CV on file in case ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.

Usage examples of suitable.

Q Factor, though high, is not of any such extraordinary highness as to justify an attempt at psychosurgery to correct the aberration, it is therefore recommended that subject be released from the Communipath Creche on her own recognizance after suitable indoctrination erasure.

A hard gamma beam would be suitable, Academician Georgi Markov thought.

Halting for refreshment and rest wherever suitable places could be found, and the Adelantado always with the vanguard, in four days they reached the vicinity of the fort, and came up within a quarter of a league of it, concealed by a grove of pine trees.

His Grace had promised to return with Lady Afy, and was devising some scheme by which he might free himself from this, now not very suitable, engagement, when she claimed his arm.

Jurassic marine strata are often correlated worldwide with great precision and confidence by recognition of a regular succession of ammonoid fauna that occurs in the same sequence wherever marine sediments of suitable age are preserved.

I drew her gently into a closet where a soft divan formed a suitable altar for the completion of an amorous sacrifice.

The Minister President was of the opinion that Baron Antal Radvanszky, an official of the Hungarian National Bank, was more suitable for such negotiations since he was able to travel to Switzerland under the pretext of business affairs.

But in reverence for the Apostolic See, to which the appeal is made, the said Judge says that he admits the appeal an intends to recognize it, deferring the whole matter to out Most Holy Lord the Pope, and leaving it to the Holy Apostolic See: assigning to the said appellant a certain time, namely, so many months now following, within which, with the process sealed under cover given to him by the said Judge, or having given suitable sureties to present himself at the Court of Rome, or under a sure and safe escort appointed to him by the said Judge, he must present himself in the Court of Rome before our Lord the Pope.

Ewell Darden and his palatial residence in Westchester, suitable storehouse for the Argyle Museum treasures - these were simply the dominant pictures.

Gardner accepted his sister the way he might have accepted - Asey tried to think of a suitable simile as he climbed into the roadster.

When the atelier was ready for use, Clarence began to look about for a suitable model.

Sainte-Genevieve was thought suitable because its austere neoclassicism seemed to project the virtues associated with the philosophers and patriotic statesmen.

I may be believed when I assert that Desolation Islands is the only suitable name for this group of three hundred isles or islets in the midst of the vast expanse of ocean, which is constantly disturbed by austral storms.

Frequently, too, snares for deer are set in suitable places along the barrier, and while the snares are made of babiche the loops are kept open with blades of grass.

Thirdly, this was suitable, lest men might seek to be baptized for the sake of impassibility in the present life, and not for the sake of the glory of life eternal.