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suit v. 1 adapt, accommodate, fit, adjust, tailor, make appropriate
or suitable: It will require some reorganization to suit the
office space to our needs. 2 please, satisfy, fill (someone's)
needs, gratify, be acceptable or suitable or convenient to or
for, befit; conform to: Choose whichever room suits you. The
schedule does not suit my personal plans at all.
--n. 3 jacket and trousers or skirt, outfit, uniform, ensemble,
costume, habit; garb, clothing, clothes, livery: He showed up
wearing a new silk suit. 4 lawsuit, action, case, proceeding,
process, cause, trial; litigation: I do not want to enter into
a suit over the damage to my car. 5 petition, plea, request,
entreaty, prayer, solicitation, application, appeal,
supplication; courtship: The king rejected all suits for his
daughter's hand in marriage.
suitable adj. appropriate, apt, fit, fitting, befitting, becoming,
right, proper, correct, acceptable, satisfactory, applicable,
meet, seemly; timely, opportune: John has at last found
suitable employment. A chandelier is not suitable at all for
such a low room. Is this a suitable time for me to ask you a
favour?
suitcase n. bag, valise, overnight bag, holdall, grip or Brit handgrip,
Brit formerly portmanteau: She packed enough for a week's
holiday into one small suitcase.
suite n. 1 set, series, collection, number: They gave us a beautiful
suite of rooms at the hotel. 2 set: She bought a new suite of
dining-room furniture. 3 following, retinue, entourage, train,
cortŠge, convoy, escort; followers, attendants, retainers: Her
suite includes advisors, secretaries, hairdressers, and
bodyguards.
suitor n. admirer, beau, wooer; boyfriend, paramour, lover, inamorato,
cicisbeo, escort, Archaic swain: Madelaine has more suitors
than I can count.
sulk v. mope, brood, pout, be sullen or moody or ill-humoured: I
wish you'd get a job instead of sulking about the house all day.
sullen adj. sulky, sulking, morose, brooding, pouting, gloomy, moody,
temperamental, dour, lugubrious, funereal, dismal, dreary, grim,