fitness

Other forms of fitness

plural

fitnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fitness

What does fitness mean?

fitness means "the quality of being suitable". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fitness?

fitness has 2 syllables: fit-ness. The stress falls on "fit". In IPA it is /ˈfɪtnəs/.

What is another word for fitness?

Close synonyms include fittingness, physical fitness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fitness?

The recorded antonyms are unfitness, unfitness.

Is fitness a common word?

fitness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.