1 in a way that is right or appropriate for a particular purpose or occasion:
I am not really suitably dressed for a party. * suitably qualified candidates
2 showing the feelings, etc. that you would expect in a particular situation:
He was suitably impressed when I told him I'd won.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for suitably is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is suitably a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, suitably is tagged as adverb.
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