Qualities

Synonyms for suitable

Synonyms for suitable: appropriate and worthy. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 2 senses · adjective

The 2 synonyms for suitable

appropriateadjective, in the sense "meant or adapted for an occasion or use"
worthyadjective, in the sense "worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse"

Each of these belongs to a different sense of suitable, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.

Sense 1 of 2adjectiveTier 2, TreelineQualities

meant or adapted for an occasion or use

This tractor is suitable for heavy farm work.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

appropriate

Same sentence, swapped: This tractor is appropriate for heavy farm work.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where suitable stands in the sentence above.

minimum
sufficient
substantial

Sense 2 of 2adjectiveTier 2, TreelineQualities

worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse

The parents found the girl suitable for their son.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

worthy

Same sentence, swapped: The parents found the girl worthy for their son.

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

relevant
fortunate
due

Where suitable turns up in the game

suitable is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play suitable

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so suitable reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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