fit Definition

fit¹
verb fitted, fit, fitting

tr & intr
1. To be the right shape or size for something or someone.

Example: Fortunately the new car fitted into the garage
Example: The jeans fitted him well
2. To be suitable or appropriate for something.

Example: a punishment that fits the crime
tr & intr
3. To be consistent or compatible with something.

Example: a theory that fits the facts
Thesaurus: agree, accord, concur, harmonize, belong, conform, be in keeping, parallel, relate to, suit, apply, match; Antonym: oppose, clash.
4. To install or put something new in place.

Example: fit the new kitchen sink
5. To equip.

Example: Warning! This car is fitted with an alarm
Thesaurus: equip, provide, supply, outfit, furnish, implement.
6. To make them suitable.

Example: qualities that fit her for the job
Form: fit someone for something (often)
7. To try clothes on someone to see where adjustment is needed.

Example: The tailor fitted the suit by pinning the seams

noun

1. The way something fits according to its shape or size.

Example: a good fit
Example: a tight fit

adj fitter, fittest

1a. Healthy; feeling good

Example: Are you fit today?
Thesaurus: healthy, able-bodied, strong, robust, strapping, hale and hearty, in the pink.
1b. Healthy, especially because of exercise.

Example: He's the fittest of all
Thesaurus: healthy, trim, in good shape, fit as a fiddle.
2. About to do something, or apparently so.

Example: looked fit to drop

adverb

1. Enough to do something.

Example: laughed fit to burst

Derivative: fitly
adverb

Derivative: fitness
noun

Idiom: fit for something

Suited to it; good enough for it.

Idiom: fit like a glove

To fit perfectly.

Idiom: fit the bill

To be perfectly suited to something; to be just right.

Idiom: see fit (think fit)

To choose to do something.

Etymology: 15c.

Phrasal Verb: fit in

Said of someone in a social situation: to behave in a suitable or accepted way.
Example: She never quite fitted in
To be appropriate or to conform to certain arrangements.
Example: The dates of the flight fitted in with my plans

Phrasal Verb: fit in or into something

To be small or few enough to be contained in it.
Example: Five people fitted into the car

Phrasal Verb: fit someone or something in

To find time to deal with them or it.
Example: I can't fit you in before Friday

Phrasal Verb: fit something out

To furnish or equip it with all necessary things for its particular purpose.
Example: fit out the ship

Phrasal Verb: fit something together or fit something in

To insert or place it in position.

Phrasal Verb: fit someone up

To incriminate them; to frame them.

Phrasal Verb: fit something up

To install it by putting it up and making it work.
Example: fitted up the satellite dish

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fit²
noun

1. A sudden attack of one or more symptoms, usually of an involuntary and relatively violent nature, eg convulsions in grand mal epilepsy, eg epileptic fit, or paroxysms of coughing, eg coughing fit.

Thesaurus: convulsion, spasm, seizure, stroke, paroxysm.
2. A burst, spell or bout.

Example: a fit of giggles
Thesaurus: outburst, outbreak, torrent, burst, spell, bout.

Idiom: by fits and starts (in fits and starts)

In irregular spells; spasmodically.
Thesaurus: sporadically, periodically, unevenly, irregularly, erratically, intermittently; Antonym: regularly, continuously.

Idiom: in fits

colloq
Laughing uncontrollably.

Idiom: have a fit (throw a fit)

To become very angry.
Thesaurus: lose one's temper, rage, blow one's top (slang), blow one's stack (slang).

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon fitt struggle.