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Fit   /fɪt/   Listen
Fit

verb
1.
Be agreeable or acceptable to.  Synonyms: accommodate, suit.
2.
Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired.  Synonym: go.
3.
Satisfy a condition or restriction.  Synonyms: conform to, meet.
4.
Make fit.  "He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"
5.
Insert or adjust several objects or people.  "This man can't fit himself into our work environment"
6.
Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics.  Synonyms: agree, check, correspond, gibe, jibe, match, tally.  "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check" , "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"  Antonym: disagree.
7.
Conform to some shape or size.
8.
Provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: equip, fit out, outfit.
9.
Make correspond or harmonize.  Synonym: match.
adjective
(compar. fitter; superl. fittest)
1.
Meeting adequate standards for a purpose.  "It is fit and proper that you be there" , "Water fit to drink" , "Fit for duty" , "Do as you see fit to"  Antonym: unfit.
2.
(usually followed by 'to' or 'for') on the point of or strongly disposed.  Synonyms: primed, set.  "Fit to drop" , "Laughing fit to burst" , "She was fit to scream" , "Primed for a fight" , "We are set to go at any time"
3.
Physically and mentally sound or healthy.  "Keeps fit with diet and exercise"  Antonym: unfit.
noun
1.
A display of bad temper.  Synonyms: conniption, scene, tantrum.  "She threw a tantrum" , "He made a scene"
2.
A sudden uncontrollable attack.  Synonyms: convulsion, paroxysm.  "A fit of coughing" , "Convulsions of laughter"
3.
The manner in which something fits.
4.
A sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason).  Synonym: burst.  "A fit of housecleaning"



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"Fit" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a little while. She did not want to resist the admiration with which Alec filled her. But she shuddered. He did not seem to fit in with the ...
— The Explorer • W. Somerset Maugham
... decision was so sudden that no fit preparation could be made," Under the existing conditions, it was indeed a desperate daring, expressive of grand faith and self-devotion, worthy of the cause in peril, and only limited in its immediate and assured triumph by ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 5, May, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various
... discipline over negro children. From ten years up they are allowed to loaf about from place to place and with all kinds of characters. They have no moral restraints. Book learning in colleges dooms the negro to be fit for nothing. They think they cannot do manual labor. What my people need is an industrial, moral, common school training. Lynching does no good, and makes bad worse. The brute who will commit these crimes never sees ...
— Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly - A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. • David Bryant Fulton
... walked in country ways, walk in them always, and with no divided love, even though brick pavements have been our chosen road this many a year. We follow the market, we buy and sell, and even run across the sea, to fit us with new armor for the soul, to guard it from the hurts of years; but ever do we keep the calendar of this one spring of life. Some unheard angelus summons us to days of feast and mourning; ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown
... collections. He let the fishermen of the region know that he wanted specimens of every kind of fish that could be found in the lake. A very small reward stirred them into activity, and, in due time, the fish were brought to the naturalist,—but lo! all nicely dressed and fit for cooking. They were much surprised when told that all their pains in dressing their catch had spoiled it for the purposes of the visiting naturalist, who wanted everything just as it ...
— The Reminiscences of an Astronomer • Simon Newcomb


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