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suitable

adj
/ˈsjuː.tə.bɫ̩/UK/ˈsju.tə.bɫ̩/CA/ˈsjʉː.tə.bɫ̩/

Etymology

From suit + -able.

  1. derived from sequi
  2. derived from *sequita✻
  3. derived from sieute
  4. derived from suite
  5. inherited from sute
  6. suffixed as suitable — “suit + able”

Definitions

  1. Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task

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

    • Doctors told Matthew Parker’s family there was only a 1% chance of finding a suitable donor for Matthew because his body had rejected a previous transplant.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at suitable. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at suitable. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at suitable

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA