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Suitable vs Well-behaved - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between suitable and well-behaved

is that suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion while well-behaved is having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.

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

    well-behaved

    English

    (wikipedia well-behaved)

    Adjective

  • (of a person or animal) Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour;
  • :The boy is well behaved and is seldom naughty.
  • (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties. Especially:
  • (mathematics) (of a function ) Having a finite derivative (of all orders) at all points, and having no discontinuities

    • Synonyms

    * well-mannered * seemly

    Antonyms

    * ill behaved * (mathematics) pathological