Antonyms for fitness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : fit-nis

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪt nɪs

Definition of fitness

Origin : 1570s, from fit (adj.) + -ness.

noun good condition
noun appropriateness

Example sentences :

It did not occur to him to question his fitness for the work.
Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana

The young girl no longer listened to these reasons of the fitness of things.
Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola

Only this very morning I read her a sermon upon 'Propriety, and the fitness of things.'
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

The place had an Homeric simplicity and beauty which touched his sense of fitness.
Extract from : « A Singer from the Sea » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Candidates must only be proposed for their fitness, and opposed on the ground of unfitness.
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

Hence the fitness of beautiful, not useful things, for gifts.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

His want of skill in other directions has added to his fitness for his own work.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

With an odd sense of fitness they had dressed themselves in black.
Extract from : « The Strolling Saint » by Raphael Sabatini

He wanted to curse his brother, yet was he too overwhelmed by the sense of the fitness of this punishment.
Extract from : « The Sea-Hawk » by Raphael Sabatini

Besides, their fitness or unfitness has nothing to do with it.
Extract from : « The Destroyer » by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Synonyms for fitness

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