suited

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsuːtɪd/
• (old-fashioned RP) IPA^(key): /ˈsjuːtɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsutɪd/

Verb

suited

1. simple past tense and past participle of suit

Adjective

suited (not comparable)

1. (card games, in combination) Having the specified number or kind of suits.

   a three-suited hand

2. (poker, of two or more cards) Of the same suit.

   Brunson has ace-king suited in the small blind

3. Wearing a suit.
   • 2003, Jonathan Swan, Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Fads and Cures, Ebury Press, →ISBN:

     Skull-caps and alchemical paraphernalia surrounded the seventeenth-century quack, whereas his nineteenth-century equivalent might appear top-hatted and suited, evidently a person of learning and ‘quality’.

   • 2011, Amber Kizer, Wildcat Fireflies, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 36:

     “Them?” I pointed to a couple of top-hatted, suited men leaning against a building farther down the street.

   • 2017, Jesse J[ames] Holland, Black Panther: Who Is the Black Panther?, Marvel Worldwide, Inc., →ISBN:

     One of the black-suited drivers nodded at his compatriots and slowly walked up to one of the men on the firing line.

Derived terms

• well-suited, well suited

Anagrams

• Eudist, dustie, duties, studie