suit

Meanings

• a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color
  • "they buried him in his best suit"
• a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
  • "the family brought suit against the landlord"
• (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit
  • "all the suits care about is the bottom line"
• a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
• a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank
• playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color
  • "a flush is five cards in the same suit"
  • "in bridge you must follow suit"
  • "what suit is trumps?"
• be agreeable or acceptable to
  • "This suits my needs"
• be agreeable or acceptable
  • "This time suits me"
• accord or comport with
  • "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!"
• enhance the appearance of
  • "This behavior doesn't suit you!"

Synonyms

accommodate, become, befit, beseem, case, causa, cause, courting, courtship, fit, lawsuit, suit of clothes, wooing