suitable

From suit + -able.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈsjuː.tə.bɫ̩], [ˈsuː.tə.bɫ̩]

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈsju.tə.bɫ̩], [ˈsju.ɾə.bɫ̩], [ˈsu.tə.bɫ̩], [ˈsu.ɾə.bɫ̩]

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• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): [ˈsjʉː.tə.bɫ̩], [ˈsjʉː.ɾə.bɫ̩], [ˈsʉː.tə.bɫ̩], [ˈsʉː.ɾə.bɫ̩]

suitable (comparative more suitable, superlative most suitable)

1. Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
   • 2015 February 23, Rachel Janik, “Texas Teacher Will Donate a Kidney to 6-Year-Old Student”, in Time‎^[1]:

     Doctors told Matthew Parker’s family there was only a 1% chance of finding a suitable donor for Matthew because his body had rejected a previous transplant.

• fit for purpose (British)
• up to standard (British)

• unsuitable

• “suitable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “suitable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

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