Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 24 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
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.
- 9noun
Regular order; succession.
- 10transitive verb
To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.
- 11transitive verb
To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.
- 12transitive verb
To dress; to clothe.
- 13transitive verb
To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.
- 14intransitive verb
To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually followed by with or to.
- 15noun
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"
- 16noun
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"
- 17noun
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"
- 18noun
a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
- 19noun
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"
- 20noun
(slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
"all the suits care about is the bottom line"
- 21verb
accord or comport with
"This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!"
- 22verb
be agreeable or acceptable to
"This suits my needs"
Synonyms
- 23verb
enhance the appearance of
"Mourning becomes Electra"
"This behavior doesn't suit you!"
Synonyms
- 24verb
be agreeable or acceptable
"This time suits me"
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