Synonyms of in order

in order

phrase

as in good

meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation

I believe a round of applause is in order.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• good
• suitable
• proper
• appropriate
• happy
• fitting
• right
• fit
• fitted
• pretty
• applicable
• needed
• becoming
• apt
• adequate
• required
• acceptable
• just
• felicitous
• befitting
• balanced
• deserved
• able
• satisfactory
• decent
• capable
• meet
• justified
• competent
• cut out
• requisite
• correct
• respectable
• qualified
• serviceable
• condign
• rightful
• tolerable
• decorous
• trained
• harmonious
• consonant
• kosher
• pitch-perfect
• seemly
• congruous
• companionate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improper
• unhappy
• wrong
• inappropriate
• unsuitable
• unfit
• incapable
• inapplicable
• unbecoming
• incompetent
• unseemly
• inadequate
• incongruous
• infelicitous
• indecent
• unskilled
• unfitting
• unqualified
• untrained
• intolerable
• inept
• unsatisfactory
• inapposite
• unacceptable
• misbecoming
• unbeseeming
• incorrect
• unskillful
• inexpert
• inapt
• unmeet
• unapt
• malapropos
• incompatible
• graceless
• indecorous
• uncongenial

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of in order

More consumers are engaging in friendly fraud, disputing real charges or purchases in order to get their money back. — Devika Rao, TheWeek, 3 Aug. 2026

The Right Ventilation Your root cellar needs proper ventilation in order to keep your fruits and vegetables healthy. — Helena Madden, Martha Stewart, 3 Aug. 2026

Kova of Stormwatch leaves her mother and sweetheart behind in order to study beneath the legendarily fearsome Sayre Boarbane… only for the stubbornly solitary Sayre to immediately drag her back home. — Literary Hub, 3 Aug. 2026

Some banks, including Deutsche Bank AG, Wells Fargo and CIBC Capital Markets, do see the Treasury tweaking Wednesday’s guidance in order to tee up an earlier shift to larger coupon sales. — Greg Ritchie, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2026