Fitness
['fɪtnəs] or [ˈfɪtnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being suitable; 'they had to prove their fitness for the position'.
(noun.) the quality of being qualified.
(noun.) good physical condition; being in shape or in condition.
Edited by Bradley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Suitableness, adaptation, aptness, aptitude, appropriateness, pertinence, propriety.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See FIT]
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Examples
- What can the fitness of things mean, if not their fitness to a man's expectations? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Following it out to blissful results, he had descried, without self-commendation, a fitness in it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Justice, in her decisions, never regards the fitness or unfitness of objects to particular persons, but conducts herself by more extensive views. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- It but remains for this council to command, and Tal Hajus must prove his fitness to rule. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Side wheel steamers for inland waters, and screw propellers for sea service, however, in time established their fitness for their respective scenes of action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Chieftains, continued Lorquas Ptomel, shall the jeddak, Tal Hajus, prove his fitness to rule over Tars Tarkas? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- There was a fitness of things in the whole that carried conviction with it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He said that General Halleck seemed so much to distrust his fitness for the position he was in that he thought somebody else ought to be there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There seems a fitness in the arrangement. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Differences of opinion must exist between the best of friends as to policies in war, and of judgment as to men's fitness. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I learned from your papers that you were my father, my creator; and to whom could I apply with more fitness than to him who had given me life? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- They are only regarded as means to an end, and please me in proportion to their fitness for that end. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The officer who has the command, however, should be allowed to judge of the fitness of the officers under him, unless he is very manifestly wrong. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was a fitness in that. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I will show some respect for the eternal fitness of things. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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