suit

Plural: suits

Noun

• a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
  • "they buried him in his best suit"
• a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
  • "the family brought suit against the landlord"
• (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
  • "all the suits care about is the bottom line"
• a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
• a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
• playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
  • "a flush is five cards in the same suit"
  • "in bridge you must follow suit"
  • "what suit is trumps?"
• A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
• A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.
• A dress.
• A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
• A full set of armour.
• The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
• Petition, request, entreaty.
• The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
• Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
• The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
• The full set of sails required for a ship.
• Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by colour and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
• Regular order; succession.
• A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
• A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

Verb

Verb Forms: suited, suiting, suits

• To be appropriate or convenient for.
• be agreeable or acceptable to
  • "This suits my needs"
• be agreeable or acceptable
  • "This time suits me"
• accord or comport with
  • "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!"
• enhance the appearance of
  • "This behavior doesn't suit you!"
• To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
• To be suitable or apt for one's image.
• To be appropriate or apt for.
• To dress; to clothe.
• To please; to make content; to fit someone's (or one's own) taste.
• To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with).

Examples

• Be sure to keep your nose to the grindstone today; the suits are making a "surprise" visit to this department.
• He is well suited with his place.
• If you take my advice, you'll file a suit against him immediately.
• My new job suits me, as I work fewer hours and don't have to commute so much.
• Nick hired a navy-blue suit for the wedding.
• That new top suits you. Where did you buy it?
• That seven-letter word will SUIT my rack perfectly for a bingo bonus.
• The nickname "Bullet" suits her, since she is a fast runner.
• The ripped jeans didn't suit her elegant image.
• When's it suit you for me to call?
• will build to suit   [on for-sale signs marking vacant lots]

Synonyms

accommodate, become, befit, beseem, case, causa, cause, courting, courtship, fit, lawsuit, suit of clothes, wooing, agree, answer, match

Related Words

clubs, diamonds, hearts, prosecute, spades, suitable, suite

Anagrams of suit