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Suitable vs Fitly - What's the difference?

suitable | fitly |

As an adjective suitable

is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.

As an adverb fitly is

in a fit manner; suitably; properly; commodiously; conveniently.

suitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.

    • Synonyms

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

    Antonyms

    * unsuitable

    Derived terms

    * suitability

    See also

    * fit * meet * appropriate * apt * pertinent * seemly * eligible * consonant * corresponding * congruous

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    fitly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a fit manner; suitably; properly; commodiously; conveniently.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:Meane-while it is a great comfort unto a Christian man, to see our mortall implements, and fading tooles, so fitly sorted to our holy and divine faith.
  • * 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, chapter XI, ''Labour :
    • Labour is Life: from the inmost heart of the Worker rises his god-given Force, the sacred celestial Life-essence breathed into him by Almighty God; from his inmost heart awakens him to all nobleness, — to all knowledge, ‘self-knowledge’ and much else, so soon as Work fitly begins.

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