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as in to face
to enter into contest or conflict with the up-and-coming boxer will meet the reigning champ for the first time tomorrow

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as in to pay
to give what is owed for I paid a portion of the long-distance bill to keep my carrier from cutting off service until I can meet the remainder of the charges

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meet

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noun

meet

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adjective

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How does the adjective meet differ from other similar words?

Some common synonyms of meet are appropriate, apt, felicitous, fitting, fit, happy, proper, and suitable. While all these words mean "right with respect to some end, need, use, or circumstance," meet suggests a just proportioning.

meet payment

When can appropriate be used instead of meet?

Although the words appropriate and meet have much in common, appropriate implies eminent or distinctive fitness.

an appropriate gift

Where would apt be a reasonable alternative to meet?

The synonyms apt and meet are sometimes interchangeable, but apt connotes a fitness marked by nicety and discrimination.

apt quotations

When might felicitous be a better fit than meet?

The meanings of felicitous and meet largely overlap; however, felicitous suggests an aptness that is opportune, telling, or graceful.

a felicitous phrase

When would fit be a good substitute for meet?

While in some cases nearly identical to meet, fit stresses adaptability and sometimes special readiness for use or action.

fit for battle

When could fitting be used to replace meet?

In some situations, the words fitting and meet are roughly equivalent. However, fitting implies harmony of mood or tone.

a fitting end

When is happy a more appropriate choice than meet?

While the synonyms happy and meet are close in meaning, happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate.

a happy choice of words

In what contexts can proper take the place of meet?

The words proper and meet can be used in similar contexts, but proper suggests a suitability through essential nature or accordance with custom.

proper acknowledgement

When is it sensible to use suitable instead of meet?

The words suitable and meet are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, suitable implies an answering to requirements or demands.

clothes suitable for camping

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of meet
Verb
Nick Sirianni meets with reporters on Monday. Zach Berman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025 After next season, the schools are set to meet again in 2031 and 2032. Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
As these two meet, Missouri State will aim to tighten up defensively and build on its silver linings, while Marshall must quickly find a spark offensively or risk falling behind early again. Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Sep. 2025 TikTok may be divided, but this marshmallow-meets-orange-blossom fragrance deserves a second sniff. Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
Certainly, there aren’t many straight love stories where a meet-cute is followed by one of the parties going off to shag someone else. Peter Debruge, Variety, 10 Sep. 2022 Six years after a meet-cute straight out of a romantic comedy, country singer Tyler Barham and his longtime love Morgan Hauerwas have tied the knot! Sarah Michaud, PEOPLE.com, 28 June 2022 See All Example Sentences for meet
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meet
Verb
  • Jessica Purcell, assistant professor in the department of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, has encountered Iberian harvester ants while studying other ant species in Italy.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Once released, many encounter stigma from employers, landlords, and even their communities, which fosters rejection and shame.
    Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Shailene Woodley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ethan Hawke, Jessie Buckley, Zachary Quinto and Edgar Ramirez were among the VIP attendees to converge at Soho House for the posh event hosted by Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh.
    Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The referees converged to discuss the call and agreed on the penalty.
    David Delgado, Oc Register, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The typical price of a single-family home in the United States is about $368,000, jumping roughly 13% over the past 5 years and 38% over the last decade, the ABC News data team found.
    ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And Sheen does find the words to tell more harrowing stories of addiction and excess that defined his Hollywood spiral.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Liberation from time and pruning through mass dishwasher ownership is a dream that remainsonly partly fulfilled.
    Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Half of Walmart’s online orders are fulfilled from stores, with the rest coming from Walmart warehouses and seller warehouses.
    Dan Gingiss, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The swells will continue to build and increase along east-facing shorelines through the middle of the week, the hurricane center warned.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • As the season sets in, many face low mood and energy as shorter days and cooler temperatures lead to more social isolation.
    Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Saturdays in the South during football season can't be matched.
    Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
  • GloRilla tapped into her preppy side in a plaid bustier dress, matching jacket and a hot pink Versace bucket bag.
    Jackie Fields, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Technological development, subjected to the logic of progress, presented itself as a force of chaos that would not tolerate any stable order.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the tree’s association with ponds, bald cypress tolerates a range of growing conditions, from somewhat dry soils to standing water.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Social media companies and influencers paid to promote pharmaceutical offerings without proper disclosures will also be targeted by the federal government, according to CNBC, which cited unnamed senior officials.
    Antonio Pequeño IV, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The backslide is worse for Black women, who in 2024 were paid 65 cents for every dollar paid to White men.
    Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Meet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meet. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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