What is "fitting" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does fitting mean in English? Meaning of fitting definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "fitting" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "fitting": making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances

Noun

  • Meaning: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances
  • Synonyms: accommodation adjustment fitting
  • Hyponyms: domestication habituation readjustment shakedown
  • Hypernyms: advance betterment improvement
  • Meaning of "fitting": in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion

    Adjective

  • Meaning: in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion
  • Example: We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this
  • Synonyms: fitting
  • Similar: proper
  • Meaning of "fitting": a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system

    Noun

  • Meaning: a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system
  • Synonyms: fitting
  • Hyponyms: gas fitting pipe fitting pipefitting receptacle
  • Hypernyms: accessory add-on appurtenance supplement
  • Meaning of "fitting": being precisely fitting and right

    Adjective

  • Meaning: being precisely fitting and right
  • Example: it is only meet that she should be seated first
  • Synonyms: fitting meet
  • Similar: just
  • Meaning of "fitting": (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)

    Noun

  • Meaning: (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel)
  • Synonyms: appointment fitting
  • Hypernyms: furnishing
  • Meaning of "fitting": putting clothes on to see whether they fit

    Noun

  • Meaning: putting clothes on to see whether they fit
  • Synonyms: fitting try-on trying on
  • Hypernyms: run test trial
  • Adjective: Present participle of fit.(informal, US, with infinitive) Ready, preparing. I'm fitting to go home and sleep. 1846, Lyndall Gordon quoting Emily Dickinson, letter, quoted in Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, published 2010: 'I am fitting to go to South Hadley Seminary [as Mount Holyoke was known], and expect if my health is good to enter that institution a year from next fall', she confided to Abiah.1846, Lyndall Gordon quoting Emily Dickinson, letter, quoted in Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, published 2010: 'I am fitting to go to South Hadley Seminary [as Mount Holyoke was known], and expect if my health is good to enter that institution a year from next fall', she confided to Abiah.
  • Synonyms:

    proper, apt, felicitous, meet, becoming, right, correct, due, applicable, comme il faut, decent, decorous, desirable, happy, just, on the nose, right on, seemly, just what was ordered, on the button, that's the ticket, furniture, extra, accouterment, appointment, equipment, attachment, paraphernalia, component, convenience, instrument, connection, part, furnishing, piece, unit, trimming,

    Antonyms:

    unsuitable, incorrect, inappropriate, unseemly, inaccurate, improper, unfitting, wrong, imprecise, whole,

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