Definition of Suitable

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Definition of Suitable
	Suitable Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. Related Definitions: Accordant, Adapted, Agreeable, As, Becoming, Capable, Fitting, For, Language, Of, One, Proper, Station, Subject, Suitable, Suiting, The, To

Suitable Quotations

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Epictetus

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.
Scott Adams

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius

Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Honore De Balzac

It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
Edvard Munch

Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
Muhammad Iqbal

The clarification of visual forms and their organization in integrated patterns as well as the attribution of such forms to suitable objects is one of the most effective training grounds of the young mind.
Rudolf Arnheim

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
Daniel Dennett

Suitable Translations

suitable in Afrikaans is behoorlik, geskikt
suitable in Danish is passende
suitable in Dutch is betamelijk, behoorlijk, fatsoenlijk
suitable in French is convenable, idoine
suitable in German is passend
suitable in Italian is appropriato
suitable in Latin is congruus, decet, opportunus, aptus, competo
suitable in Portuguese is apropriado
suitable in Spanish is adecuada

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