Fit

Verb

 * 1)  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
 * 1)  Of clothing, to be of the right size and cut.
 * 2)  To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.
 * 3)  To be fitting; to suit.
 * 4) * 1918, Richard Dennis Teall Hollister, Speech-making, publ. George Wahr, pg. 81:
 * The speaker should be certain that his subject fits the occasion.
 * 1)   To suffer a fit.

Adjective

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

Noun

 * 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.
 * 1) (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.
 * 1)  A section of a poem or ballad, from the sense of fitted to length.
 * 2) * 1771, Samuel Johnson, "Letter to Bennet Langton, Esq. (March 20)," in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol 2:
 * Dr. Percy has written a long ballad in many fits.
 * 1)  A seizure or convulsion.
 * 2)  A sudden and vigorous appearance of a symptom over a short period of time.
 * 3) 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.
 * 1) A sudden burst (of an activity).

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
 * blowout, hissy, tantrum, spell, moment
 * flurry, frenzy

adjective
 * suitable, adapted, proper, appropriate, becoming, expedient, apt, adequate, apposite, congruous, competent, conformable, suited, correspondent, contrived, calculated, befitting, seemly, decorous, decent, pertinent, prepared, [qualified].

Antonyms for Fit

 * (adjective) unfit, unsuitable, unfitting, ungainly, unseemly, untimely, amiss, misfitted, awkward, incongruous, ill-timed, inadequate, miscontrived, improper, miscalculated, misapplied, inappropriate, inexpedient.

Derived terms

 * fit as a fiddle
 * fit like a glove
 * fit up
 * misfit
 * unfit
 * fitly
 * fittie

Derived terms

 * fits and starts
 * have a fit
 * hissy fit


 * shit fit
 * snit fit
 * throw a fit

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

Etymology 1
From the adjective fit#Etymology 2:.

Etymology 2
From the noun fit#Etymology 3:.

Etymology 3
From fitt:.

Verb

 * Arabic: ناسب
 * Armenian:, , համապատասխանել
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Danish: passe sammen
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew: התאים


 * Interlingua: vader ben a
 * Japanese:, 合わせる ,
 * Latvian: sakrist
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: freagair
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Arabic: ناسب
 * Armenian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: passe til
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: התאים


 * Indonesian: menyesuaikan, mencocokkan, mempaskan
 * Japanese:, 適する
 * Latvian: derēt
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, быть впору
 * Scottish Gaelic: freagair
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Armenian: սազեցնել
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: tilpasse
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:


 * Hebrew: התאים
 * Indonesian: adjustar
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: подгонять, прилаживать, приспосабливать
 * Swedish: skräddarsy, prova ut
 * Turkish: uydurmak

Adjective

 * Danish: i form
 * Dutch:
 * Indonesian: fit, sehat, segar bugar, sesuai, cocok, serasi, pas, tepat
 * Interlingua: in forma
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 元気 (げんき, genki), 健康 (けんこう, kenkō), 合う (あう, au), 似合う (にあう, niau), 適する (てきする, teki-suru), 適切 (てきせつ, tekisetsu)
 * Portuguese: em (boa) forma
 * Spanish: en (buena) forma
 * Swedish: i form, i trim


 * Armenian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish: passende
 * Hiligaynon:


 * Italian:
 * Manx: cooie
 * Swedish:


 * German:, ,
 * Japanese: 美人 (bijin), 別嬪 (beppin) (a little bit archaic)


 * Swedish:

Noun

 * Danish:
 * German:


 * Swedish: passform

Noun

 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: התקף (hetkef)
 * Hindi: मिर्गी


 * Hungarian:
 * Latvian: lēkme
 * Navajo:
 * Swedish: anfall, utbrott
 * Telugu: మూర్చ
 * Urdu: مرگی


 * Finnish: kohtaus, sairaskohtaus
 * German:
 * Hungarian: roham, epizód


 * Latvian: lēkme
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: anfall, utbrott, skov


 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew: התקף (hetkef of something), קריזה (kriza negative)


 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Swedish: anfall, utbrott

Adjective

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

Noun

 * 1) target

Adjective

 * 1) fit, healthy

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


 * 1) fit in good shape

Verb

 * 1) third-person singular indicative past historic of faire

Icelandic




Noun

 * 1)  web, interdigital webbing, a membrane that connects the digits of an animal
 * 2)  a casting on, casting on

Related terms

 * breiðafit
 * fitja
 * fuglafit
 * fuglsfit
 * gullfit
 * hundafit
 * lykkjufit
 * Halldórufit
 * silfurfit
 * skollafit
 * sundfit

Noun

 * 1) foot
 * 2) lower end of a street, river, field etc
 * 3) what Doric

Derived terms

 * fitbaw

Verb

 * 1) to foot