fitness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: fit=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

fitness, n. 

 The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

fitness

Hygeia, ability, ableness, acceptability, account, adequacy, admissibility, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, applicability, appositeness, appropriateness, aptitude, aptness, auspiciousness, becomingness, beneficialness, bloom, caliber, capability, capableness, capacity, chargedness, civility, competence, competency, condition, convenience, correctitude, correctness, criticality, crucialness, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum, desirability, efficacy, efficiency, eligibility, eligible, emotional health, expedience, expediency, facility, faculty, favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, felicity, fettle, fine fettle, fittedness, fittingness, flair, flush, fruitfulness, genius, genteelness, gentility, glow, good shape, goodness, happiness, harmony, health, healthiness, kilter, loadedness, mastery, maturity, meetness, mental health, niceness, normality, normativeness, opportuneness, order, percentage, pertinence, physical condition, physical fitness, politicness, pregnancy, preparedness, proficiency, profit, profitability, properness, propitiousness, proprieties, propriety, prudence, qualification, readiness, relevance, repair, righteousness, rightness, ripeness, rosiness, salubriousness, salubrity, seasonableness, seasoning, seemliness, service, serviceability, shape, sufficiency, suitability, suitableness, suitedness, susceptibility, talent, tempering, the goods, the stuff, timeliness, tone, trim, urbanity, use, usefulness, utility, vigor, well-being, what it takes, wholesomeness, wisdom, worthiness, worthwhileness

ROGET THESAURUS

fitness

Expedience

N expedience, expediency, desirableness, desirability, fitness, utility, propriety, opportunism, advantage, high time, expedient, desirable, advisable, acceptable, convenient, worth while, meet, fit, fitting, due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming, befitting, opportune, in loco, suitable, applicable, in the right place, conveniently, operae pretium est.

Agreement

N agreement, accord, accordance, unison, harmony, concord, concordance, concert, understanding, mutual understanding, conformity, conformance, uniformity, consonance, consentaneousness, consistency, congruity, congruence, keeping, congeniality, correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union, fitness, aptness, relevancy, pertinence, pertinencey, sortance, case in point, aptitude, coaptation, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility, cognation, adaption, adjustment, graduation, accommodation, reconciliation, reconcilement, assimilation, consent, concurrence, cooperation, right man in the right place, very thing, quite the thing, just the thing, agreeing, suiting, in accord, accordant, concordant, consonant, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, congenial, coherent, becoming, harmonious reconcilable, conformable, in accordance with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with at one with, of one mind, of a piece, consistent, compatible, proportionate, commensurate, on all fours, apt, apposite, pertinent, pat, to the point, to the purpose, happy, felicitous, germane, ad rem, in point, on point, directly on point, bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible, fit adapted, in loco, a propos, appropriate, seasonable, sortable, suitable, idoneous, deft, meet, at home, in one's proper element, a propos of, pertinently, rem acu tetigisti, if the shoe fits, wear it, the cap fits, auxilia humilia firma consensus facit, discers concordia.

Right

N right, what ought to be, what should be, fitness, summum jus, justice, equity, equitableness, propriety, fair play, impartiality, measure for measure, give and take, lex talionis, Astraea, Nemesis, Themis, scales of justice, evenhanded justice, karma, suum cuique, clear stage, fair field and no favor, level playing field, morals, law, honor, virtue, right, good, just, reasonable, fit, equal, equable, equatable, evenhanded, fair, legitimate, justifiable, rightful, as it should be, as it ought to be, lawful deserved, rightly, +a bon droit, au bon droit, in justice, in equity, in reason, without distinction of persons, without regard to persons, without respect to persons, upon even terms, Int, all right!, fair's fair, Dieu et mon droit, in equal scale weighing delight and dole, justitia cuum cuique distribuit, justitiae soror incorrupta fides, justitia virtutem regina, thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.

Duty

N duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness, liability, onus, responsibility, bounden duty, imperative duty, call, call of duty, accountability, allegiance, fealty, tie engagement, part, function, calling, morality, morals, decalogue, case of conscience, conscientiousness, conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego, the hell within, dueness, propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, to prepon, the thing, the proper thing, the right thing to do, the proper thing to do, ethics, ethology, deontology, aretology, moral philosophy, ethical philosophy, casuistry, polity, observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption, good behavior, obligatory, binding, imperative, peremptory, stringent, behooving, incumbent on, chargeable on, under obligation, obliged by, bound by, tied by, saddled with, due to, beholden to, bound to, indebted to, tied down, compromised, in duty bound, amenable, liable, accountable, responsible, answerable, right, meet, moral, ethical, casuistical, conscientious, ethological, with a safe conscience, as in duty, bound, on one's own responsibility, at one's own risk, suo periculo, in foro conscientiae, quamdiu se bene gesserit, dura lex sed lex, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honos habet onus, leve fit quod bene fertur onus, loyaute m'oblige, simple duty bath no place for fear, stern daughter of the voice of God, there is a higher law than the Constitution.