apt connotes a fitness marked by nicety and discrimination.
apt quotations
happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate.
a happy choice of words
felicitous suggests an aptness that is opportune, telling, or graceful.
a felicitous phrase
Examples of suitable in a Sentence
The dress was a suitable choice.
We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.
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Accessibility and Sustainability There are two rooms suitable for guests with disabilities.—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 2 Sep. 2025 Is the sofa suitable for particular decor styles and if so, which?—Charlotte Collins, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2025 Hasbro offers lightsabers suitable for children, which can be assembled and customized.—Alexander Cox, Space.com, 1 Sep. 2025 Many of the major LLMs encompass various automated safeguards that seek to detect whether the brief chat might have wandered afield of suitable protocols.—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for suitable
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