# fittingly

/ˈfɪtɪŋɫi/ (US) · /fˈɪtɪŋli/ (UK) · CEFR C1 · Adverb

Source: https://englishreference.com/word/fittingly
Updated: 2026-10-18

## Definition

in a way that feels right or suits the moment. You use it when something matches the occasion well.

For teachers: in a way that is suitable or appropriate to the particular occasion, person, or purpose.

## Examples

- The day ends fittingly with a quiet family dinner.
- After years of night shifts, she spends her last day at the hospital fittingly, handing over her keys to a former student.
- Fittingly, the restored theatre reopened in autumn with the same play that had closed it fifty years earlier, its faded posters reproduced for the lobby.

## Usage notes

- Modifies a verb for manner; also used sentence-initially as a disjunct commenting on the whole clause.

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