Definition of fit

"fit" in the noun sense

1. fit, tantrum, scene, conniption

a display of bad temper

"he had a fit"

"she threw a tantrum"

"he made a scene"

2. paroxysm, fit, convulsion

a sudden uncontrollable attack

"a paroxysm of giggling"

"a fit of coughing"

"convulsions of laughter"

3. fit

the manner in which something fits

"I admired the fit of her coat"

4. burst, fit

a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason

"a burst of applause"

"a fit of housecleaning"

"fit" in the verb sense

1. suit, accommodate, fit

be agreeable or acceptable to

"This suits my needs"

2. fit, go

be the right size or shape fit correctly or as desired

"This piece won't fit into the puzzle"

3. fit

make fit

"fit a dress"

"He fitted other pieces of paper to his cut-out"

4. fit

insert or adjust several objects or people

"Can you fit the toy into the box?"

"This man can't fit himself into our work environment"

5. match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree

be compatible, similar or consistent coincide in their characteristics

"The two stories don't agree in many details"

"The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"

"The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun"

6. fit

conform to some shape or size

"How does this shirt fit?"

7. equip, fit, fit out, outfit

provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose

"The expedition was equipped with proper clothing, food, and other necessities"

8. fit, conform to, meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil

fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condtion ro restriction

"does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?"

"This job doesn't match my dreams"

"meet a need"

9. match, fit

make correspond or harmonize

"Match my sweater"

"fit" in the adjective sense

1. fit

meeting adequate standards for a purpose

"a fit subject for discussion"

"it is fit and proper that you be there"

"water fit to drink"

"fit for duty"

"do as you see fit to"

2. fit, primed, set

usually followed by `to' or `for') on the point of or strongly disposed

"in no fit state to continue"

"fit to drop"

"laughing fit to burst"

"she was fit to scream"

"primed for a fight"

"we are set to go at any time"

3. fit

physically and mentally sound or healthy

"felt relaxed and fit after their holiday"

"keeps fit with diet and exercise"

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Quotations for fit

In a fit of passion.

All is fine that is fit. [ Proverb ]

Not a single shaft can hit
Till the God of love sees fit. [ Ryland ]

Love makes one fit for any work. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Nothing is fine but what is fit. [ Proverb ]

One shoe does not fit every foot. [ Italian Proverb ]

One science only will one genius fit,
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. [ Pope ]

High flying hawks are fit for princes. [ Proverb ]

As fit as a fritter for a friar's mouth. [ Proverb ]

Like a barber's chair, fit for every one. [ Proverb ]

He who was never sick dies the first fit. [ Proverb ]

So gentle, yet so brisk, so wondrous sweet.
So fit to prattle at a lady's feet. [ Churchill ]

No sort of head-cloths will fit a mad head. [ Proverb ]

Few are fit to be entrusted with themselves. [ Proverb ]

Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest; evils that take leave.
On their departure most of all show evil. [ William Shakespeare ]

We begin not to live, till we are fit to die. [ Proverb ]

Learning makes a man fit company for himself. [ Proverb ]

Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain. [ Milton ]

The man that hath no music in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. [ William Shakespeare ]

Luther's shoes don't fit every country parson. [ German Proverb ]

He builds cages fit for oxen to keep birds in. [ Proverb ]

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise
Their Master's flower, but leave it having done,
As fair as ever and as fit to use;
So both the flower doth stay and honey run. [ Herbert ]

Death cannot come
To him untimely who is fit to die;
The less of this cold world, the more of heaven;
The briefer life, the earlier immortality. [ Millman ]

Things fit only to give weight to smoke. (Trifles) [ Persius ]

Fit the foot to the shoe, not the shoe to the foot. [ Portuguese Proverb ]

He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them. [ Proverb ]

Fit words are fine, but often fine words are not fit. [ Proverb ]

As fit as a thump with a stone in an apothecary's eye. [ Proverb ]

The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven. [ South ]

Angry men and drunken men, during the fit, are distracted. [ Proverb ]

He that wants business may fit out a ship, or take a wife. [ Proverb ]

How good is man's life, the mere living! how fit to employ
All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! [ Robert Browning ]

Zeal is fit only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools. [ Proverb ]

Zeal is fit for wise men, but flourishes chiefly among fools. [ Tillotson ]

Leave the flesh to the fate it was fit for! the spirit be thine. [ Robert Browning ]

An artist should be fit for the best society, and keep out of it. [ Ruskin ]

Rich in fit epithets, blest in the lovely marriage of pure words. [ Anthony Brewer ]

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. [ J. G. Holland ]

Expert men can execute, but learned men are more fit to judge and censure. [ Bacon ]

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. [ Whipple ]

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness. [ Swift ]

He that punishes another in anger, shall feel it himself when the fit is over. [ Proverb ]

There are few people who are not ashamed of their amours when the fit is over. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire. [ Bancroft ]

A man who cannot mind his own business is not fit to be trusted with the king's. [ Saville ]

The common mind is the true Parian marble, fit to be wrought into likeness to a god. [ George Bancroft ]

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody. [ Zimmermann ]

It is a maxim that no man was ever enslaved by influence while he was fit to be free. [ Johnson ]

That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in; and the best of me is diligence. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too. [ Thoreau ]

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. [ Lavater ]

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness. [ F. W. Robertson ]

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him. [ Horace ]

Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. [ Montaigne ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents - flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. [ Emerson ]

Susceptibility to one class of influences, the selection of what is fit for him, the rejection of what is unfit, determines for a man the character of the universe. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty; and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire. [ Channing ]

To buy books only because they were published by an eminent printer, is much as if a man should buy clothes that did not fit him, only because made by some famous tailor. [ Pope ]

A man that is fit to make a friend of, must have conduct to manage the engagement, and resolution to maintain it; he must use freedom without roughness, and oblige without design. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude - the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on divine aid. [ B. L. Magoon ]

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position. [ G. A. Sala ]

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much, by gaudy attire. Lysander knew this was in part true, and refused the rich garments that the tyrant Dionysius proffered to his daughters, saying that they were fit only to make unhappy faces more remarkable. [ Zimmermann ]

Flowers and fruits are always fit presents; flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world. These gay natures contrast with the sombre countenance of ordinary nature; they are like music heard out of a workhouse. [ Berz ]

Courtship is a fine bowling-green turf, all galloping round and sweethearting, a sunshine holiday in summer time; but when once through matrimony's turnpike, the weather becomes wintry, and some husbands are seized with a cold, aguish fit, to which the faculty give the name of indifference. [ G. A. Stevens ]

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative In your reading; to read faithfully and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in, - a real, not an imaginary - and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in. [ Carlyle ]

Personal attachment is no fit ground for public conduct, and those who declare they will take care of the rights of the sovereign because they have received favours at his hand, betray a little mind and warrant the conclusion that if they did not receive those favours they would be less mindful of their duties, and act with less zeal for his interest. [ C. Fox ]

Irresolution is a worse vice than rashness. He that shoots best may sometimes miss the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it. Irresolution loosens all the joints of a state; like an ague, it shakes not this nor that limb, but all the body is at once in a fit. The irresolute man is lifted from one place to another; so hatcheth nothing, but addles all his actions. [ Feltham ]

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]

If I were to choose the people with whom I would spend my hours of conversation, they should be certainly such as labored no further than to make themselves readily and clearly apprehended, and would have patience and curiosity to understand me. To have good sense and ability to express it are the most essential and necessary qualities in companions. When thoughts rise in us fit to utter among familiar friends, there needs but very little care in clothing them. [ Steele ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

fit in Scrabble®

The word fit is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters fit:

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fit in Words With Friends™

The word fit is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters fit:

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The 33 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In fit

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Words within the letters of fit

2 letter words in fit (2 words)

3 letter words in fit (1 word)

fit + 1 blank (8 words)

Words containing the sequence fit

Word Growth involving fit

Shorter words in fit

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Longer words containing fit

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