FluentPlex

fitting

/ˈfɪtɪŋ/ adjective C2
  1. Chiefly preceded by a descriptive adverb or noun: that fits in some manner (often closely) to the shape or size of something. · close-fitting form-fitting ill-fitting
  2. Appropriate, suitable, proper. (figuratively)
+ Save to review

From the library

As you look at their grey stone huts against the scarred hillsides you leave your own age behind you, and if you were to see a skin-clad, hairy man crawl out from the low door fitting a flint-tipped arrow on to the string of his bow, you would feel that his presence there was more natural than your own.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 92 · C1
The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 84 · B2
A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.
The Valley of Fear, p. 19 · C1
Seeing a thrush sitting upon a tree, he wished to take it, and fitting his twigs to a proper length, watched intently, having his whole thoughts directed towards the sky.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 77 · B2

Other matches

Learn fitting in real texts

With a free account, hover any word in the library for its meaning, hear it read aloud, save words for review timed to your memory, and see how much of each book you already know.

Create free account
Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.