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NOUN | 1 | suit, lawsuit, case, cause, causa | A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy |
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2 | suit, suit of clothes | A set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color | |
3 | suit | Playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack | |
4 | suit | A businessman dressed in a business suit | |
5 | suit, courtship, wooing, courting | A man's courting of a woman | |
6 | suit | A petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank | |
VERB | 1 | suit, accommodate, fit | Be agreeable or acceptable to |
2 | suit | Be agreeable or acceptable | |
3 | suit, befit, beseem | Accord or comport with | |
4 | suit, become | Enhance the appearance of |
Sounds | suw't |
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Rhymes | absolute, acute, arrowroot, and 76 more rhymes in uwt at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy. |
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Examples | "the family brought suit against the landlord" |
Synonyms | lawsuit, case, cause, causa |
Category | law, jurisprudence |
Narrower | civil suit; class action, class-action suit; countersuit; criminal suit; moot; paternity suit, bastardy proceeding |
Broader | proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings |
Verbs | sue |
Meaning | A set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color. |
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Examples | "they buried him in his best suit" |
Synonyms | suit of clothes |
Narrower | business suit; double-breasted suit; single-breasted suit; slack suit; zoot suit |
Broader | garment |
Meaning | Playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack. Each set has its own symbol and color. |
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Examples | "a flush is five cards in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit is trumps?" |
Member of | pack of cards, deck of cards, deck |
Narrower | major suit; minor suit |
Broader | playing card |
Meaning | A businessman dressed in a business suit. |
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Examples | "all the suits care about is the bottom line" |
Broader | businessman, man of affairs |
Usage | disparagement, depreciation, derogation |
Meaning | A man's courting of a woman. Seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage). |
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Synonyms | courtship, wooing, courting |
Narrower | bundling |
Broader | entreaty, prayer, appeal |
Meaning | A petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank. |
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Broader | entreaty, prayer, appeal |
Meaning | Be agreeable or acceptable to. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "This suits my needs" |
Synonyms | accommodate, fit |
Broader | meet, fit, conform to |
Meaning | Be agreeable or acceptable. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "This time suits me" |
Narrower | agree |
Broader | be |
Meaning | Accord or comport with. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Examples | "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!" |
Synonyms | befit, beseem |
Broader | match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree |
Meaning | Enhance the appearance of. |
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Pattern | Something ----s somebody |
Examples | "This behavior doesn't suit you!" |
Synonyms | become |
Broader | beautify, embellish, prettify |