idoneous

[ahy-doh-nee-uhs]

adjective

Rare.

1. appropriate; fit; suitable; apt.

   If you do not know the true, you will seek instead the idoneous.

Other Word Forms

• idoneity noun
• idoneousness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of idoneous¹

First recorded in 1605–15; from Latin idōneus; -ous

Example Sentences

Those students who busy themselves much with such notions as reside wholly in the fantasy, do hardly ever become idoneous for abstracted metaphysical speculations; the one having bulky foundations of matter, or of the accidents of it, to settle upon—at the least with one foot; the other flying continually, even to a lessening pitch in the subtile air.

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And Arminius' drastic method of questioning and arguing became the idoneous vehicle for Arnold's criticisms on such topics as our Foreign Policy, Compulsory Education, the Press, and the Deceased Wife's Sister.

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Queen Whims after this said to her gentlemen: The orifice of the ventricle, that ordinary embassador for the alimentation of all members, whether superior or inferior, importunes us to restore, by the apposition of idoneous sustenance, what was dissipated by the internal calidity's action on the radical humidity.

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