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[ US /ˈsut/ ]
[ UK /sˈuːt/ ]
VERB
  1. enhance the appearance of
    Mourning becomes Electra
    This behavior doesn't suit you!
  2. be agreeable or acceptable to
    This suits my needs
  3. be agreeable or acceptable
    This time suits me
  4. accord or comport with
    This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!
NOUN
  1. playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
    in bridge you must follow suit
    what suit is trumps?
    a flush is five cards in the same suit
  2. a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
    all the suits care about is the bottom line

How To Use suit In A Sentence

  • He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
  • It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
  • She took a lot of tweed and heavy suiting, an ankle-length dress and platform shoes - quite the bonkers stuff.
  • If this approach has a drawback, it is that the zealous pursuit of the founding principle—disinterring the buried life, stamped under the sod by conniving male partners—sometimes obscures the fact that not a great deal gets added to the wider cultural landscape it is bent on illuminating. A Far From Model Marriage
  • Country pursuits on offer include sheep-racing, woodcarving with chainsaws, small-bore rifle-shooting, wool-spinning, bee demonstrations, candle-making and ferret-racing.
  • My store-bought long dresses are too "dressy" and made of rayon and other finer fabrics that are not suitable for housework. Sewing Simple Clothing
  • I picked a piece of fluff off my shiny black suit.
  • The amount of water which is suitable to drink is less and less.
  • Some experienced foreign jumpers displayed hand-in-hand group jumping, wingsuit jumping and somersaults during free fall; all the risky stunts thrilled the audience.
  • The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
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