suit
suit is a 4-letter English word with 24 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
- noun. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.
- noun. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
- noun. The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.
- noun. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.
- noun. Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw/t.
- noun. A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.
- noun. One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, cubs, or diamonds.
- noun. Regular order; succession.
- transitive verb. To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
- transitive verb. To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
- transitive verb. To dress; to clothe.
- transitive verb. To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
- intransitive verb. To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.
- noun. 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"
- 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"
- noun. 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"
- noun. a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
- noun. a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
"its was a brief and intense courtship"
- noun. (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
"all the suits care about is the bottom line"
- verb. accord or comport with
"This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!"
- verb. be agreeable or acceptable to
"This suits my needs"
- verb. enhance the appearance of
"Mourning becomes Electra"
"This behavior doesn't suit you!"
- verb. be agreeable or acceptable
"This time suits me"
Synonyms
case, causa, cause, lawsuit, courting, courtship, wooing, befit, beseem, accommodate, fit, become
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in suit:
Common word forms
suits, suited, suiter, suites, suitly, suiting, suitable
Words from these letters
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