idoneous
[ahy-DOH-nee-uhs]
Definition: appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
-adjective
1. Appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.
Examples:
1. As far as benefices are concerned no one could be more idoneous, fitting or suitable than Martin, since he is an Anglican clergyman.
Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove
2. It would hardly be possible to apply less idoneous adjectives to it than Watson's reiterated "wailing" and "haunting."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone
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