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Fitting

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Similar meaning 4

Just 84% connected

Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- sai…

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Just 84% connected

Conforming or conformable to rectitude or justice; not doing wrong to any; violating no right or obligation; upright; righteous; honest; true; -- sai…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Proper 84% connected

Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Proper 84% connected

Belonging to one; one's own; individual.

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Broader term 10

Accessory 76% connected

Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contrib…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Advance 76% connected

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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Appurtenance 76% connected

That which belongs to something else; an adjunct; an appendage; an accessory; something annexed to another thing more worthy; in common parlance and…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Betterment 76% connected

A making better; amendment; improvement.

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Furnishing 76% connected

of Furnish

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Improvement 76% connected

The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of th…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Run 76% connected

of Run

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Supplement 76% connected

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.

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Test 76% connected

A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

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Trial 76% connected

The act of trying or testing in any manner.

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Narrower term 5

Domestication 76% connected

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

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Habituation 76% connected

The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of being habituated.

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Readjustment 76% connected

A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

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Receptacle 76% connected

That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.

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Shakedown 76% connected

A temporary substitute for a bed, as one made on the floor or on chairs; -- perhaps originally from the shaking down of straw for this purpose.

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Derivationally related 4

Fit 74% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Fit 74% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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Match 74% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Match 74% connected

Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp.,…

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Synonym 5

Accommodation 92% connected

The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adjustment 92% connected

The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Appointment 92% connected

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Decent 92% connected

Suitable in words, behavior, dress, or ceremony; becoming; fit; decorous; proper; seemly; as, decent conduct; decent language.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meet 92% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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