suited

1. 1
   adjective

   Right or appropriate for a particular purpose, person, or situation.

   Her calm temperament makes her well suited to crisis management.

   The lightweight design is better suited to warm climates than to winter use.

   Similarfitted, equipped, appropriate, fit

   Oppositeunfit, inappropriate

   Note

   This adjective usually comes with a partner: to or for after it (suited to me, suited for the road), or an adverb such as well or better in front. It compares with more and most, not -er and -est. John Henry Newman writes "more suited to me than Birmingham" in 1849, and Edward Dorn found AM radio "very suited for the road."

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past tense and past participle of suit.

   The flexible hours suited the new parents on staff.

   Nothing on the menu suited his strict diet.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both simple past (the hours suited them) and past participle (it has suited her well). The participle shades easily into the "suitable" adjective, so in be suited to the line between passive verb and adjective is thin. When the verb means "correspond," it usually takes to; suit with is the archaic alternative.

3. 3
   adjective

   Dressed in a suit, especially formal business or professional attire.

   The suited executives gathered in the lobby before the meeting.

   Two suited attendants flanked the hotel entrance.

   Note

   This is built the way English builds many dress words, noun plus -ed, and it pairs naturally with its kind: top-hatted and suited, black-suited drivers. A color or style can be hyphenated onto the front. Unlike the "suitable" meaning, it takes no more or most. Context decides which sense is meant, so a suited applicant may be dressed for the interview or right for the job.

4. 4
   adjective

   Belonging to the same suit, as with two cards sharing the same symbol like hearts or spades.

   Holding suited connectors, he called the raise hoping to hit a flush.

   Two suited cards in the hole improve the odds of completing a flush.

   Note

   Poker shorthand that can follow the cards it describes: Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind. It also goes in front, as in suited connectors. It always describes two or more cards, never one. The point is the flush, since cards that share a suit can build toward one.

5. 5
   adjectivein compounds

   Having the specified number or kind of suits, as in a 'two-suited' hand in bridge.

   His two-suited hand held six spades and five diamonds.

   Bidding gets tricky with a three-suited hand and a singleton.

   Note

   A card player's compound-former that almost never stands alone. It attaches to a number or a descriptor (single-suited, two-suited, three-suited) and is hyphenated before the noun it nearly always describes: a hand. Don't confuse it with the poker sense of matching. A two-suited hand spreads its strength over two suits, while suited cards all share one.

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