suited

English

Etymology

From suit +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːtɪd/, (dated) /ˈsjuː-/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsutɪd/
• Rhymes: -uːtɪd
• Hyphenation: suit‧ed

Adjective

suited (comparative more suited, superlative most suited)

1. (usually with to, for or an adverb) Suitable.
   • 1685, Richard Lucas, The Duty of Servants […]‎^[1], page 55:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 1978, Edward Dorn, in Edward Dorn, Stephen Fredman, An Interview with Edward Dorn‎^[2], page 38:

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

2. (card games, in combination) Having the specified kind or number of suits.

   a three-suited hand

3. (poker, of two or more cards) Of the same suit.

   Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind

4. (not comparable) Wearing a suit.
   • 2003, Jonathan Swan, Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Fads and Cures, Ebury Press, →ISBN:

     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’.

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

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

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

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

Derived terms

• birthday-suited
• dress-suited
• ill-suited
• morning-suited
• suited and booted
• suited-booted
• well-suited, well suited
• zoot-suited

 

Verb

suited

1. simple past and past participle of suit

Anagrams

• Eudist, dustie, duties, studie