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fitness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fitness

1 the condition of being sound in body

  • a gymnastics program promoting fitness and agility in school-aged children
Synonyms of fitness

health, healthiness, heartiness, robustness, sap, soundness, verdure, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness
Words Related to fitness

fettle, shape

cleanliness, hygiene

hardiness, lustiness, robustiousness, ruggedness, stamina, strength, toughness, vigor, vigorousness, vitality

bloom, flush, flushness

activeness, agility, liveliness, spryness

weal, welfare, well-being
Near Antonyms of fitness

debility, decrepitude, feebleness, frailness, infirmity, lameness, sickliness, weakness

ailment, condition, disease, disorder, malady, trouble
Antonyms of fitness

illness, sickness, unhealthiness, unsoundness

2 the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting

  • I have to question the fitness of wearing a bright red dress to a funeral
Synonyms of fitness

appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, felicitousness, felicity, fittingness, happiness, properness, propriety, rightness, seemliness, suitability, suitableness
Words Related to fitness

agreeableness, compatibility, congruity, harmoniousness

applicability, bearing, connection, justifiability, materiality, pertinence, relevance, relevancy, validity

acceptability, adequacy, adequateness, convenience, expedience, expediency, satisfactoriness, serviceableness, usefulness
Near Antonyms of fitness

disagreeableness, incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, inexpedience, inexpediency, inharmoniousness, unbecomingness

immateriality, inapplicability, irrelevance, irrelevancy

meaninglessness, pointlessness
Antonyms of fitness

improperness, impropriety, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptness, infelicity, unfitness, unseemliness, unsuitability, wrongness

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