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suited

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Etymology

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From suit +‎ -ed.

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Adjective

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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.

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Verb

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suited

  1. simple past and past participle of suit

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