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| Main Entry: | fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good condition |
| Synonyms: | fettle*, health, repair, shape, strength, trim, vigor, good health, kilter, robustness |
| Antonyms: | poor health |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, adaptation, adequacy, aptitude, assimilation, compatibility, competence, consistency, consonance, convenience, correspondence, decency, decorum, eligibility, harmony, keeping, order, pertinence, preparedness, propriety, qualification, readiness, suitability, timeliness, accordance, admissibility, agreeableness, applicability, appositeness, aptness, auspiciousness, concurrency, congeniality, congruousness, expediency, patness, relevancy, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | inappropriateness, unsuitability |
| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, appropriateness, fitness, service, usefulness, applicability |
| Main Entry: | competence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability |
| Synonyms: | adequacy, appropriateness, capability, capacity, expertise, fitness, know-how, might, moxie, proficiency, qualification, savvy, skill, suitability, competency, cutting it, cutting the mustard, hacking it, making the grade, makings, qualifiedness, the goods, the right stuff, what it takes |
| Notes: | competence is a measure of the ability to perform a task; efficiency is a measure of the success achieved in the performance of a task |
| Antonyms: | inability, inadequacy, incompetence, incapability, inefficience, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | decency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | respectable behavior |
| Synonyms: | appropriateness, civility, correctness, courtesy, decorum, dignity, etiquette, fitness, formality, good manners, honesty, modesty, propriety, respectability, righteousness, virtue, ceremoniousness, conventionality, fittingness, good form, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | impropriety, indecency, obscenity, immodesty, immorality, obsceneness |
| Main Entry: | health |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical, mental wellness |
| Synonyms: | bloom*, complexion, constitution, energy, euphoria, fettle, fitness, form, hardihood, pink*, prime*, shape, soundness, stamina, state, strength, tone, verdure, vigor, well-being, wholeness, clean bill, eupepsia, fine feather, good condition, haleness, hardiness, healthfulness, healthiness, lustiness, robustness, salubriousness, salubrity, tonicity, top form |
| Antonyms: | disease, illness, infirmity, sickness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adulthood, full growth |
| Synonyms: | ability, advancement, capability, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, experience, fitness, fullness, majority, manhood, mentality, perfection, prime, readiness, sophistication, wisdom, full bloom, maturation, matureness, maturescence, mellowness, postpubescence, prime of life, ripeness, womanhood |
| Antonyms: | childhood, minority, youth |
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
| Synonyms: | befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake*, fighting chance*, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack* |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | readiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill; eagerness |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, alacrity, dexterity, dispatch, ease, eloquence, expedition, facility, fitness, fluency, good will, inclination, keenness, maturity, preparation, preparedness, promptness, prowess, quickness, rapidity, sleight, willingness, aptness, deftness, expedience, handiness, promptitude, ripeness, volubility |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, unpreparedness |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, service, treatment, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear*, wont, worth, applicability, capitalization, exercising, mobilization, relevance, serviceability, usability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | utility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serviceableness |
| Synonyms: | account, adequacy, advantage, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, profit, service, use, usefulness, advantageousness, applicability, expediency, productiveness, relevance, serviceability |
| Main Entry: | appropriateness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriate conduct |
| Synonyms: | fitness, propriety, suitability, usefulness, aptness, suitableness |
| Antonyms: | inappropriateness, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | intestinal fortitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | strength of will |
| Synonyms: | backbone, chutzpah, courage, endurance, energy, fitness, fortitude, guts, heart, moxie, spunk, stamina, staying power, stick-to-it-iveness, strength, vigor, wind, balls, brass balls, gutsiness, toughness |
| Main Entry: | physical fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bodily conditioning |
| Synonyms: | agility, condition, endurance, fitness, flexibility, shape, strength, aerobic fitness, anaerobic fitness, cardiovascular fitness, coordination, physical conditioning |
| Main Entry: | suitability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rightness |
| Synonyms: | agreement, appropriateness, fitness, propriety |
| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | availability, usefulness; useful thing |
| Synonyms: | accessibility, accessory, accommodation, advancement, advantage, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, help, life, luxury, means, ministry, promotion, relief, satisfaction, service, succor, suitability, support, use, utility, agreeableness, comforts, handiness, ministration, openness, opportuneness, receptiveness, serviceability, suitableness, time saver |
| Antonyms: | inconvenience, waste, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | correspondence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, analogy, coherence, coincidence, comparison, concurrence, conformity, congruity, consistency, correlation, equivalence, fitness, harmony, likeness, match, regularity, relation, resemblance, similarity, symmetry, comparability |
| Antonyms: | difference, disagreement |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advisability, benefit, convenience, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, propriety, prudence, suitability, usefulness, utility, advantageousness, appositeness, aptness, desirability, judiciousness, meetness, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, rightness, utilitarianism |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | advisability, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, fitness, harmony, justice, morality, order, rectitude, respectability, suitability, accordance, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, ethicality, expedience, legitimacy, meetness, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rightness, seemliness |
| Antonyms: | impropriety, wrong, immorality, inappropriateness, unsuitableness |
| Main Entry: | qualification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, aptitude |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, adequacy, attainment, attribute, capability, capacity, competence, eligibility, endowment, experience, fitness, goods, might, quality, skill, stuff, suitability, makings, qualifiedness, suitableness, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | disqualification, inability, lack, inaptitude |
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