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
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The dress was a suitable choice.
We upgraded the computer to make it suitable to our needs.
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That balance, Google argues, makes the model suitable for complex tasks such as application development, maintaining large software projects, and preparing financial documents.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026 That realization has, in recent weeks, set off a scramble on the part of the Iranian regime to find suitable storage, an effort that has entailed everything from reactivating old storage facilities to jury-rigging vacant tankers to serve the purpose.—Ilan Berman, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026 That's the distance between the string to the fretboard – a lower action requires less effort to play and is suitable for blazing fast shredding, while some rhythm players prefer a higher action setup for greater clarity.—New Atlas, 18 May 2026 Securities, investment products, other financial products or strategies discussed herein may not be suitable for all investors.—Katie Stockton, CNBC, 18 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for suitable