Fit

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English

Verb

Fit (third-person singular simple present fits, present participle fitting, simple past fitted or fit, past participle fitted or fit)

  1. (intransitive) Of an object, to be of the right size and shape so as to match another object.
    I want to fit the drapes to the design of the room
  2. (intransitive) Of clothing, to be of the right size and cut.
  3. (transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
  4. (intransitive) To be fitting; to suit.
    • 1918, Richard Dennis Teall Hollister, Speech-making, publ. George Wahr, pg. 81:
      The speaker should be certain that his subject fits the occasion.
  5. (intransitive) (medicine) To suffer a fit.

Adjective

Fit (comparative fitter, superlative fittest)

  1. in good shape
  2. suitable
  3. (UK, slang) good looking, fanciable, attractive, beautiful
    I think the girl working in the office is fit.

Noun

Fit (plural Fits)
  1. The degree to which something fits something else.
    This shirt is a bad fit.
    Since he put on weight, his jeans have been a tight fit.
  2. (Advertising) how well a particular commercial execution captures the character or values of a brand.
    The Wonder Bread advertising research results showed the “White Picket Fence” commercial had strong fit ratings.
  3. (archaic) A section of a poem or ballad, from the sense of fitted to length.
  4. (medicine) A seizure or convulsion.
  5. (medicine) A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
  6. A sudden outburst of emotion.
    He had a laughing fit which lasted more than ten minutes.
    She had a fit and had thrown all of his clothes out of the window.
  7. A sudden burst (of an activity).
    • 2007 Ryan J. Foley Wisconsin city^s largest employer threatens to leave over ethanol
    A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997.

Notes

Usually used in the singular preceded by an indefinite article and an adjective.

Statistics

Adjectives for Fit

fainting; plethoric; smooth; trim; excellent; slenderizing; violent; immoderate; jealous; snug; periodical; poetic; painful; dreadful; melancholy; suller; apoplectic; hysterical;natural; morose; economical; perfect; permanent; wild; suave; comfortable; superior; proper; lasting; soft; custom; superb; correct; assured.

Verbs for Fit

ail with—; anticipate—; attack with—; burst into—; check—; convulse in—; cure of—; fall into—; fear—; master—; scream in—; seize with—; shake with—; sweat in —; take with—; throw into—; treat for—; —exhausts; —possesses ; —seizes; —wracks.

Adverbs for Fit

remarkably; splendidly; magnificently; capably; competently; expertly; skillfully; amazingly; opportunely; conveniently; appropriately; brilliantly; robustly; sturdily; gratifyingly; pleasantly; unusually; marvelously.

Adverbs for Fit

snugly; exquisitely; adorably; peculiarly; permanently; specifically; curiously; delicately; smoothly; periodically; economically; superbly.

Synonyms for Fit

noun

adjective

Antonyms for Fit

Derived terms

Derived terms

Terms derived from fit (noun)

Thesaurus

Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, a propos, abdominal epilepsy, able, acceptable, access, accommodate, accommodate with, accord, according to Hoyle, accouter, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, ad rem, adapt, adapt to, adaptation, adapted, adequate, adjust, adjust to, adjusted, adjustment, admissible, ado, advance, advantage, advantageous, advisable, affect epilepsy, agitation, agree with, akinetic epilepsy, alive and kicking, alter, ameliorate, amok, ample, answer, apoplexy, applicable, appoint, apposite, apprentice, appropriate, apropos, apt, arm, arrest, assimilate, assimilate to, attack, attune, au fait, auspicious, autonomic epilepsy, balance, balanced, barely sufficient, be OK, be guided by, be right, be there, become, becoming, befit, befitting, belong, bend, benefit, better, blaze, blockage, bother, botheration, break, break in, break up, breakup, breed, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, bring up, bunkum, burst, bustle, cancel, capable, capacitate, caparison, cardiac epilepsy, cat fit, cataclysm, change, checked out, chime in with, chipper, climax, clonic spasm, clonus, comely, commensurate, commotion, compensate, competent, comply, comply with, compose, condign, condition, conditioning, conform, congruous, conniption, conniption fit, consonant, convenient, convert, convulsion, coordinate, correct, correspond, corresponding, cortical epilepsy, costume, counterbalance, counterpoise, countervail, cramp, cultivate, cursive epilepsy, cut to, cyclone, decent, decorous, defensible, deform, denature, deserved, desirable, develop, diastrophism, disaster, discipline, disguise, diurnal epilepsy, diversify, do, do the job, do the trick, dovetailing, dress, drill, duck fit, due, eclampsia, efficient, eligible, enable, enablement, enfranchised, enjoying health, enough, epilepsia, epilepsia gravior, epilepsia major, epilepsia minor, epilepsia mitior, epilepsia nutans, epilepsia tarda, epilepsy, epitasis, equal to, equalize, equate, equip, equipment, equitable, eruption, eupeptic, even, even up, evenhanded, exercise, expedient, explosion, fair, fair and square, fall in with, falling sickness, favorable, feasible, feery-fary, felicitous, ferment, fetch up, fever, fidgetiness, fill the bill, fine, fit and fine, fit in, fit of anger, fit of temper, fit out, fit up, fitted, fitted for, fitten, fitting, fix, flap, flare-up, flurry, fluster, flutter, flutteriness, focal epilepsy, follow, form, fortunate, forward, foster, frenzy, fructuous, full of beans, furnish, furnishing, furor, fury, fuss, fussiness, gale, gear, gear to, geared, get, go, go by, go together, good, good enough, grand mal, grip, groom, gust, habit, hale, happy, harmonize, haute mal, have its place, have place, healthful, healthy, heel, homologate, homologize, house-train, housebreak, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurricane, hysterical epilepsy, ictus, improve, in condition, in fine fettle, in fine whack, in good case, in good health, in good shape, in health, in high feather, in mint condition, in shape, in the pink, inspired, integrate, irruption, journeyman, just, just right, justifiable, justified, key to, kosher, larval epilepsy, laryngeal epilepsy, laryngospasm, latent epilepsy, lawful, legal, level, lick into shape, likely, lockjaw, lucky, maelstrom, make conform, make plumb, make uniform, make up, man, masquerade, matutinal epilepsy, measure, meet, meet and right, meliorate, menstrual epilepsy, merited, meshing, minimal, minimum, mitigate, modify, modulate, mold, munition, murderous insanity, musicogenic epilepsy, mutate, myoclonous epilepsy, nice, nocturnal epilepsy, normal, normative, not come amiss, nurse, nurture, observe, occlusion, on the button, opportune, orgasm, outbreak, outburst, outfit, overthrow, paroxysm, pat, petit mal, physiologic epilepsy, plenty, plenty good enough, poise, politic, pother, practice, prepare, proficient, profit, profitable, promote, proper, propitious, proportion, proportionate, providential, psychic epilepsy, psychokinesia, psychomotor epilepsy, put in trim, put in tune, put to school, quadrate, quake, qualification, qualified, qualify, rage, raise, re-create, ready, realign, rear, rebuild, recommendable, reconcile, reconstruct, rectify, redesign, refit, reflex epilepsy, reform, regulate, rehearse, relate, relevant, remake, renew, reshape, restlessness, restructure, revamp, revive, rig, rig out, rig up, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, ring the changes, ripe, rotatoria, rub off corners, sane, satisfactory, scramble, seasonable, seemly, seizure, send to school, sensory epilepsy, serial epilepsy, serve, set, set right, settle, sexual climax, shape, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, similarize, sortable, sound, spasm, spell, spurt, square, staff, stew, stir, stoppage, storm, straighten, stretch, strike a balance, stroke, substantial, subvert, sufficient, sufficient for, sufficing, suit, suit the occasion, suitable, suited, suiting, sweat, swirl, sync, synchronize, tailor, tailored, take in hand, tally with, tantrum, tardy epilepsy, temblor, temper tantrum, tempest, tetanus, tetany, throes, thromboembolism, thrombosis, tidal wave, timely, to be desired, to the point, to the purpose, to-do, tolerable, tonic epilepsy, tonic spasm, tornado, torsion spasm, train, traumatic epilepsy, trim to, trismus, true, true up, tsunami, tumult, tune, tuning, turn, turn out, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn upside down, ucinate epilepsy, uniform, unquiet, up to, up to snuff, upheaval, useful, vary, visitation, vortex, warrantable, warranted, well, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-fitted, well-put, well-qualified, well-suited, well-timed, whirl, whirlwind, wholesome, wise, with voice, with vote, work, work a change, worsen, worthwhile, worthy, yield

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From the adjective fit.

Etymology 2

From the noun fit.

Etymology 3

From Old English fitt.

Translations

Verb

Of an object, to match another object
Of clothing, to have right size and cut
to tailor

Adjective

in good shape
suitable
good-looking female

Noun

degree to which something fits
References

for 2nd definition: The Advertising Research Handbook Charles E. Young, Ideas in Flight, Seattle, WA, April 2005

for 3rd definition: Oxford English Dictionary: fit, fyte n. 1</small>

Noun

seizure
sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom
sudden outburst of emotion

Catalan

Adjective

  1. fixed (of eyes, regard, etc.)

Noun

Fit m. (plural Fits)

  1. target

Czech

Adjective

Fit

  1. fit, healthy

Notes

  • This adjective is indeclinable.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adjective

Fit (fitte, comparative: fitter, superlative: fitst)

  1. fit (in good shape)

French

Verb

Fit

  1. third-person singular indicative past historic of faire

Icelandic

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An example of interdigital webbing on a frog.
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A casting on.

Noun

Fit f. (genitive singular fitjar, plural fitjar)

  1. (zoology) web, interdigital webbing, a membrane that connects the digits of an animal
  2. (knitting) a casting on, casting on

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Latin

Verb

fit

  1. third-person singular present passive indicative of faciō

Scots

Noun

Fit (plural Fits)
  1. foot
  2. lower end (of a street, river, field etc)
  3. what (Doric)

Derived terms

Verb

tae Fit (third-person singular simple present Fits, present participle Fitin, simple past Fitt, past participle Fitt)

  1. to foot
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