suitable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: suit=a=ble
• COUNT in NET: 4 in 4 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 3 in 3 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

suitable, a. 

 Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject.  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant; agreeable; competent; correspondent; compatible; consonant; congruous; consistent.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

suitable, adj. (usu. foll. by to, for) well fitted for the purpose; appropriate.

Derivative

suitability n. suitableness n. suitably adv.

Etymology

SUIT + -ABLE, after agreeable

THESAURUS

suitable

a propos, acceptable, according to Hoyle, ad rem, adapted, adequate, admissible, advantageous, advisable, ample, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, auspicious, barely sufficient, becoming, befitting, civil, commensurate, competent, condign, congruous, convenient, correct, corresponding, decent, decorous, deserved, desirable, dovetailing, due, eligible, enfranchised, enough, equal to, expedient, favorable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitten, fitting, fortunate, fructuous, geared, genteel, good, good enough, happy, just, just right, kosher, likely, lucky, meet, merited, meshing, minimal, minimum, nice, normal, normative, on the button, opportune, pat, plenty, plenty good enough, politic, presentable, profitable, proper, propitious, proportionate, providential, qualified, reasonable, recommendable, relevant, requisite, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, ripe, satisfactory, seasonable, seemly, sortable, substantial, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suited, suiting, tailored, timely, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, up to, urbane, useful, well-timed, wise, with voice, with vote, worthwhile, worthy

ROGET THESAURUS

suitable

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.

Occasion

N timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room, event (eventuality), suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time, high time, opportuneness, tempestivity, crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture, crisis, turning point, given time, nick of time, golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening, clear stage, fair field, mollia tempora, fata Morgana, spare time, opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful, seasonable, providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious, auspicious, critical, suitable, obiter dicta, opportunely, in proper course, in due course, in proper season, in due season, in proper time, in due time, for the nonce, in the nick of time, in the fullness of time, all in good time, just in time, at the eleventh hour, now or never, by the way, by the by, en passant, a propos, pro re nata, pro hac vice, par parenthese, parenthetically, by way of parenthesis, incidentally, while speaking of, while on the subject, extempore, on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion, on the spot, carpe diem occasionem cognosce, one's hour is come, the time is up, that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to think of it, bien perdu bien connu, e sempre l'ora, ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius, nosce tempus, nunc aut nunquam.