Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - suitably

1. You use suitably to indicate that someone or something has the right qualities or things for a particular activity, purpose, or situation. There are problems in recruiting suitably qualified scientific officers for NHS laboratories... Unfortunately I’m not suitably dressed for gardening. ADV: ADV adj/-ed 2. If you say that someone or something is, for example, suitably impressed or suitably dramatic, you mean that they have as much of that quality as you would expect in that situation. She flicked her eyes up to make certain I was suitably impressed... Her exit seemed suitably dramatic. ADV: ADV adj