Synonyms for suitable
ˈsu tə bəlsuit·able

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1. suitableadjective

   Synonyms:
   fit for purpose, up to standard

   Antonyms:
   unsuitable

2. suitableadjective

   Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.

   Synonyms:
   up to standard, fit for purpose

   Antonyms:
   unsuitable

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1. suitable

   Adequate, commensurate, and sufficient signify equal to some given occasion or work; as, a sum sufficient to meet expenses; an adequate remedy for the disease. Commensurate is the more precise and learned word, signifying that which exactly measures the matter in question. Adapted, fit, suitable, and qualified refer to the qualities which match or suit the occasion. A clergyman may have strength adequate to the work of a porter; but that would not be a fit or suitable occupation for him. Work is satisfactory if it satisfies those for whom it is done, though it may be very poor work judged by some higher standard. Qualified refers to acquired abilities; competent to both natural and acquired; a qualified teacher may be no longer competent, by reason of ill health. Able and capable suggest general ability and reserved power, able being the higher word of the two. An able man will do something well in any position. A capable man will come up to any ordinary demand. We say an able orator, a capable accountant.

   Synonyms:
   able, adapted, adequate, capable, commensurate, competent, equal, fit, fitted, fitting, qualified, satisfactory, sufficient

   Antonyms:
   disqualified, inadequate, incompetent, inferior, insufficient, poor, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsuitable, useless, worthless

   Preposition:
   Adequate to the demand; for the purpose.

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1. suitableadjective

   Synonyms:
   proper, fitting, becoming, seemly, befitting, adequate, eligible, agreeable, appropriate, decent, convenient, accordant, competent, correspondent, harmonious, uniform, homogeneous

   Antonyms:
   improper, unfitting, unbecoming, indecent, inconvenient, inaccordant, various, heterogeneous, unsuitable, incompetent

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1. suitable, suitedadjective

   meant or adapted for an occasion or use

   "a tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty"; "not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy"

   Synonyms:
   suited, worthy, desirable

   Antonyms:
   unfit, ineligible

2. desirable, suitable, worthyadjective

   worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse

   "the parents found the girl suitable for their son"

   Synonyms:
   desirable, suited, worthy

   Antonyms:
   ineligible, unfit

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1. suitableadjective

   Synonyms:
   fit, proper, meet, apt, appropriate, seemly, becoming, due, just, apposite, applicable, fitting, befitting, relevant, eligible, adapted, accordant, consonant, conformable, pertinent, convenient, PAT, APROPOS, to the point, to the purpose

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1. suitableadjective

   Synonyms:
   fitting, accordant, proper, becoming, congruous, consistent, congruent

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1. List of paraphrases for "suitable":

   appropriate, adequate, proper, fit, adapted, tailored, conducive, right, convenient, fitting, decent, relevant, acceptable, due, opportune

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How to use suitable in a sentence?

1. The Washington Post:

   The 2016 plan identified 962,000 acres as suitable for commercial timber and suggested no more than 568,000 acres of that should be logged.

2. Fabio Forgione:

   That's also our concern - having families being moved to areas that are definitely not suitable to allow decent living conditions.

3. Madhur Deora:

   Pay later really suits the needs of younger millennials in the country, because many of them just find the process of getting credit anywhere else not suitable for them.

4. Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji:

   The photos had aesthetically documented those historical sites and made me highly amazed and inspired, i wondered if I could take similar pictures of historical sites, and so through my trips all around Iran, I began to find old mosques suitable for taking interior pictures.

5. Neinor Chief Executive Juan Velayos:

   We want to lead the residential developer market in Spain, and to do that we need a big land bank, in 2015 there was hardly any competition and we could buy a large part of the suitable land available in Spain. Now there's more competition and less land.