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Definition: Fit To |
Fit ToAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Fit ToSynonyms: fir for(a) (adj), fit (adj), fit to(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unfit (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agreement | Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate. |
Beauty | Fit to be seen, passable, not amiss. |
Inferiority | Adjective: inferior, smaller; small; minor, less, lesser, deficient, minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate; (imperfect); sub, subaltern; thrown into the shade; weighed in the balance and found wanting; not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to. |
Ugliness | Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen; |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fit To |
| Etymologies containing "fit to": Coaptation ♦ Deft, Discommodate ♦ Entheic, Estovers ♦ Feague, frugal ♦ Habiliment, Halter-sack, Heppen ♦ Practical ♦ Rasorable ♦ tactics, Telestic, Thetical ♦ utensil ♦ Walkable. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I don't think you're fit to handle this defense. (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin. Based on the play by Aaron Sorkin.) Jerry Seinfeld, you're not fit to wear this uniform. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Now you've made a lady of me, I'm not fit to sell anything else. (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner) And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear? And if you can't act fit to eat like folks, you can just set here and eat in the kitchen. (To Kill a Mockingbird; writing credit: Harper Lee; Horton Foote) Because they are only fit to sever the bull necks of their countrymen with a butcher's cleaver. (The Private Life of Henry VIII; writing credit: Lajos Bir; Arthur Wimperis) | |
Lyrics | Now what if I said that you wasn't fit to be with (What About Us?; performing artist: Brandy) I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM) In a minute or less I can be dressed fit to kill (The Fireman; performing artist: George Strait) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fit to Be Toyed (1959) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Confucius | The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. |
Douglas Macarthur | Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live. |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. | I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. |
Heraclitus | Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. |
Lao-Tzu | A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. |
Montaigne | Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them. |
Samuel Johnson | When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land. |
Theodore Roosevelt | Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. |
William Hazlitt | No style is good that is not fit to be spoken or read aloud with effect. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And if the father die, and fail to substitute a deputy in his trust; if he hath not provided a tutor, to govern his son, during his minority, during his want of understanding, the law takes care to do it; some other must govern him, and be a will to him, till he hath attained to a state of freedom, and his understanding be fit to take the government of his will. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Such of these submarines, vessels and docks as are considered by the said Governments to be fit to proceed under their own power or to be towed shall be taken by the German Government into such Allied ports as have been indicated The remainder, and also those in course of construction, shall be broken up entirely by the German Government under the supervision of the said Governments. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Could I mention any thing more fit to be done, than to go to Mrs. Goddard? |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | But the child did not see fit to let the matter drop. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He apostrophised, as he leaped across a brook, a portress with a beard fit to meet Faust upon the Brocken, who had her broom in her hand. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This was all my master thought fit to tell me at that time of what passed in the grand council. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This was an airy and unplastered cabin, fit to entertain a travelling god, and where a goddess might trail her garments. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SYCOPHANT, n. One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. As the lean leech, its victim found, is pleased To fix itself upon a part diseased Till, its black hide distended with bad blood, It drops to die of surfeit in the mud, So the base sycophant with joy descries His neighbor's weak spot and his mouth applies, Gorges and prospers like the leech, although, Unlike that reptile, he will not let go. Gelasma, if it paid you to devote Your talent to the service of a goat, Showing by forceful logic that its beard Is more than Aaron's fit to be revered; If to the task of honoring its smell Profit had prompted you, and love as well, The world would benefit at last by you And wealthy malefactors weep anew -- Your favor for a moment's space denied And to the nobler object turned aside. Is't not enough that thrifty millionaires Who loot in freight and spoliate in fares, Or, cursed with consciences that bid them fly To safer villainies of darker dye, Forswearing robbery and fain, instead, To steal (they call it "cornering") our bread May see you groveling their boots to lick And begging for the favor of a kick? Still must you follow to the bitter end Your sycophantic disposition's trend, And in your eagerness to please the rich Hunt hungry sinners to their final ditch? In Morgan's praise you smite the sounding wire, And sing hosannas to great Havemeyher! What's Satan done that him you should eschew? He too is reeking rich -- deducting you. |
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Expressions using "fit to": be fit to drop ♦ fit to a T ♦ fit to be seen ♦ fit to drop ♦ fit to live ♦ not fit to hold a candle to ♦ not to be fit to hold a candle to ♦ see fit to ♦ see fit to do smth. ♦ think fit to ♦ think fit to do smth.. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
fit to be tied | 15 |
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| Language | Translations for "fit to"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sotva se držet na nohou (be fit to drop), považovat za vhodné nìco udìlat (see fit to do smth.). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | syötäväksi kelpaamaton (inedible, not fit to eat, uneatable, unfit for human consumption), nautittava (enjoyable, fit to eat, palatable), juotava (drink, drinkable, fit to drink), ihmisravinnoksi kelpaamaton (not fit to eat), asuttava (fit to live in, habitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | habilité . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | eßbar (eatable, edible, fit to eat). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | למצוא ל כון (see fit to, think fit to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mintha rá szabták volna (to fit sy like a glove, to fit to a nicety), mintha rá öntötték volna (to fit sy like a glove, to fit to a nicety). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn-ee (consumable, edible, fit to eat), follan (bracing, edible, fit to eat, genial, healthy, hearty, incorrupt, orthodox, solvent, sound, whole, wholesome). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | itfay otay socoti potrivit sã faci ceva (think fit to do smth.). (various references) вне себя от гнева (fit to be tied). (various references) ทำให้เหมาะสมกับ (fit for, fit into), มีขนา"เหมาะสมกับ. (various references) yorgunluktan bayılacak halde (fit to drop, ready to drop), tırnağı olamamak (not to be fit to hold a candle to), eline su dökememek (not to be fit to hold a candle to), ayakta duracak hali kalmamış (fit to drop, ready to drop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 34, Verse 18 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | AsebhV o legwn basilei paranomeiV asebestate toiV arcousin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Qui dicit regi apostata qui vocat duces impios |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That seith to the king, Apostata; that clepeth dukys vnpitous. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Is it fit to say to a king, Thou art wicked? and to princes, Ye are ungodly? |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | He who says to a king, You are an evil-doer; and to rulers, You are sinners; |
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| Language | Job Chapter 34, Verse 18 |
| Albanian | Ai që i thotë një mbreti: "Je për t'u përbuzur" dhe princave: "Jeni të këqij". |
| Cebuano | Siya nga nagaingon sa usa ka hari: Ikaw tampalasan, Kun sa mga harianon: Kamo mga dautan; |
| Croatian | Onog koji kaže kralju: 'Nitkove!' a odlièniku govori: 'Zlikovèe!' |
| Danish | Han, som kan sige til Kongen: "Din Usling!" og "Nidding, som du er!" til Stormænd, |
| Dutch | Zou men tot een koning zeggen: Gij Belial; tot de prinsen: Gij goddelozen! |
| Finnish | joka sanoo kuninkaalle: `Sinä kelvoton`, ruhtinaille: `Sinä jumalaton`, |
| French | Qui proclame la méchanceté des rois Et l`iniquité des princes, |
| German | Sollte einer zum König sagen: "Du heilloser Mann!" und zu den Fürsten: "Ihr Gottlosen!"? |
| Haitian Creole | Bondye pini wa yo lè yo fè sa ki mal. Li pini gwo chèf yo lè yo fè mechanste. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Allah menghukum raja dan penguasa bila mereka jahat dan durhaka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Yang berfirman kepada raja: Hai orang jahat! dan kepada orang bangsawan: Hai kamu, orang fasik! |
| Italian | lui che dice ad un re: «Iniquo!» e ai principi: «Malvagi!», |
| Maori | E tau ana ranei te mea atu ki te kingi, He weriweri koe? ki nga rangatira ranei, He kino koutou? |
| Norwegian | Sier vel nogen til en konge: Din niding, eller til en fyrste: Du ugudelige? |
| Rumanian | care strigq cqtre kmpqrayi: ,Netrebnicilor!` Wi cqtre domnitori: ,Nelegiuiyilor!` |
| Russian | нПЦОП МЙ УЛБЪБФШ "БТА: ФЩ--ОЕЮЕУФЙЧЕ", Й ЛОСЪШСН: ЧЩ--'ЕЪЪБЛПООЙЛЙ? |
| Spanish | Él es el que dice al rey: "¡Perverso!" o a los nobles: "¡Impíos!" |
| Swedish | Får man då säga till en konung: "Du ogärningsman", eller till en furste: "Du ogudaktige"? |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-i-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: toft, toit. | |
-2 letters: fit, oft, tit, tot. | |
-3 letters: if, it, of, ti, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-i-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: outfit. | |
+2 letters: outfits. | |
+3 letters: confetti, fetation, fistnote, footiest, fortieth, fortuity, frostbit, loftiest, ofttimes, outfight, pettifog, reoutfit, retrofit. | |
+4 letters: fetations, fistnotes, floatiest, flotation, footprint, forthwith, fortieths, fortitude, fortnight, frostbite, frostiest, frothiest, leitmotif, outfights, outfitted, outfitter, pettifogs, reoutfits, retrofits, topflight. | |
+5 letters: factitious, fantastico, fetologist, fianchetto, fictionist, fictitious, filtration, flirtation, floatation, flotations, footlights, footnoting, footprints, forgetting, formatting, forthright, fortitudes, fortnights, fortuities, fortuitous, frontality, frostbites, frowstiest, hotfooting, leitmotifs, muttonfish, offsetting, oftentimes, outfasting, outfitters, outfitting, outfooting, postflight, refutation, shirtfront, stratiform, toploftier, toploftily, trifoliate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 69 74      54 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01101001 01110100 00100000 01010100 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F i t   T o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0069 0074      0054 006F |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40758625481 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Historic 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Bible Trace 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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