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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