apt connotes a fitness marked by nicety and discrimination.
apt quotations
happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate.
a happy choice of words
felicitous suggests an aptness that is opportune, telling, or graceful.
a felicitous phrase
Examples of suitable in a Sentence
The dress was a suitable choice.
We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.
Recent Examples on the WebThe squishy texture is fun to squeeze, and the broad sensations at the wider end of the toy are suitable for intimate foreplay.—Anna Miller, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024 Topics include chicken breeds, proper housing, general health care, nutrition, food safety, and determining if your property is suitable for raising backyard poultry.—Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 June 2024 The former includes two DirectX 12 gaming simulations from UL's 3DMark, Night Raid (more modest, suitable for systems with integrated graphics) and Time Spy (more demanding, suitable for gaming rigs with discrete GPUs).—PCMAG, 19 June 2024 The existing technology takes information about a product shared by a supplier and converts it into a product listing suitable for a consumer.—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 18 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for suitable
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