fittest

ADJECTIVE

suitable, appropriate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

able apt capable competent happy prepared qualified wise

STRONG

adapted becoming befitting correct correspondent deserving due equipped expedient fitted fitting meet ready right trained worthy

WEAK

adequate advantageous apposite beneficial comely comme il faut conformable convenient desirable equitable favorable feasible felicitous good enough just likely opportune practicable preferable proper rightful seasonable seemly tasteful timely well-suited

Antonyms

STRONGEST

ignorant incapable incompetent inept stupid unable unskilled

STRONG

imprecise improper inaccurate inappropriate incorrect unbecoming unfit unfitting unprepared unseemly unsuitable untrained unworthy wrong

WEAK

inadequate poor unsuited weak

ADJECTIVE

healthy, in good physical shape

Synonyms

STRONGEST

able-bodied competent robust slim strapping toned

STRONG

hale muscled sound trim well

WEAK

fit as a fiddle in good condition up to snuff wholesome wrapped tight

Antonyms

STRONGEST

infirm weak

STRONG

sick unhealthy

WEAK

inadequate inappropriate incorrect poor unfit unsuitable unsuited unworthy

Example Sentences

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The romance of Thomas of Erceldoune is a poem in three "fyttes" or sections, which is preserved wholly or in part in five manuscripts, of which the earliest may be dated about 1435.

From The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' by Sidgwick, Compiled by Frank

Therefore the king must come to Robin; and here the compiler, perhaps, saw his opportunity to introduce the king-in-disguise theme, and so evolved the two last fyttes of the Gest.

From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Sidgwick, Frank

The acts or fyttes of the quarrel between Byron and Southey occur in the following order.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley