Definition of fits

"fits" 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"

"fits" 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"

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Quotations for fits

By fits and starts. [ French ]

Your key fits not that lock. [ Proverb ]

Every shoe fits not every foot. [ Proverb ]

A woman's fitness comes by fits. [ William Shakespeare ]

That suit is best that best fits me. [ Proverb ]

Fits life to love like rhyme to rhyme. [ Sidney Lanier, To Beethoven ]

A good style fits like a good costume. [ Alcott ]

A piece of a churchyard fits everybody. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every true man's apparel fits your thief. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]

By fits and girts, as an ague takes a goose. [ Proverb ]

Flames rise and sink by fits; at last they soar
In one bright flame, and then return no more. [ John Dryden ]

Those whom God to ruin has designed.
He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. [ Dryden ]

Nature fits all her children with something to do. [ Lowell ]

If any fool finds the cap fits him, let him wear it. [ Proverb ]

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short-lived, and apt to have ague fits. [ Erasmus ]

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which make us stronger for the time, but leave us weaker forever after. [ Dean Swift ]

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. [ Pope ]

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war. [ Milton ]

Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all hands alike, and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one. [ Richter ]

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. [ Hazlitt ]

fits in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters fits:

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fits in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of fits

2 letter words in fits (3 words)

3 letter words in fits (4 words)

4 letter words in fits (Anagrams) (3 words)

Words containing the sequence fits

Words that start with fits (1 word)

Words with fits in them (3 words)

Word Growth involving fits

Shorter words in fits

it fit

it its

Longer words containing fits

backfits

befits

benefits

comfits discomfits

confits

misfits

outfits reoutfits preoutfits

photofits

pipefits

profits nonprofits

profits profitshare

profits profitsharing

refits

retrofits

soffits

unfits

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