suitability

1. 1.

   the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose

   “an important requirement is suitability for long trips”

   Synonymssuitableness

   Antonymsunsuitability

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerappropriatenessfitnessconvenience

Other forms of suitability

plural

suitabilities·

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 suitability

What does suitability mean?

suitability means "the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose".

How many syllables are in suitability?

suitability has 5 syllables: sui-ta-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌsutəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for suitability?

Close synonyms include suitableness. 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 suitability?

The recorded antonyms are unsuitability.

Is suitability a common word?

suitability is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with suitability?

48 words rhyme with suitability. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.