Suit vs. Tuxedo — What's the Difference?

A set of outer clothes made of the same fabric and designed to be worn together, typically consisting of a jacket and trousers or a jacket and skirt

A dress jacket, usually black with satin or grosgrain lapels, worn for formal or semiformal occasions. Also called dinner jacket.

Any of the sets into which a pack of playing cards is divided (in conventional packs comprising spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs).

A complete outfit including this jacket, trousers usually with a silken stripe down the side, a bow tie, and often a cummerbund.

A lawsuit.

A typically black formal jacket worn by men.

The process of trying to win a woman's affection with a view to marriage

The entire suit complementing and including this jacket.

A complete set of sails required for a ship or for a set of spars

Ellipsis of tuxedo cat

Be convenient for or acceptable to

A kind of black jacket for semiformal evening dress made without tails, usually of black or dark blue color and having satin or grosgrain facing on the lapels; - so named after a fashionable country club at Tuxedo Park, New York.

Enhance the features, figure, or character of (someone)

The complete semiformal evening suit, including the tuxedo jacket, matching trousers, and black bow tie, and usually including a cummerbund; - the style of shirt worn with this suit varies, and the outfit may include a dickey.

Put on clothes, especially for a particular activity

Semiformal evening dress for men

A set of matching outer garments, especially one consisting of a coat with trousers or a skirt, often worn on formal occasions.

(Slang)A person, especially an executive, who wears one of these garments at work.

An outfit worn for a special activity

A group of things used together; a set or collection

(Games)Any of the four sets of 13 playing cards (clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades) in a standard deck, the members of which bear the same marks.

Attendance required of a vassal at his feudal lord's court or manor.

(Law)A lawsuit.

The act or an instance of courting a woman; courtship

To meet the requirements of; fit

To make appropriate or suitable; adapt

To be appropriate for; befit

To please; satisfy

To provide with clothing; dress

To be suitable or acceptable.

To be in accord; agree or match.

A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.

(by extension) A garment or set of garments suitable and/or required for a given task or activity: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit, swimsuit.

A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.

A full set of armour.

(legal) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.

Petition, request, entreaty.

The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.

Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.

(obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.

The full set of sails required for a ship.

(card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.

(obsolete) Regular order; succession.

(archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.

(archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)

(transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.

To be suitable or apt for one's image.

(transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.

To dress; to clothe.

To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.

(intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)

The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit.

The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain result; pursuit; endeavor.

The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in marriage; courtship.

The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery.

That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; - often written suite, and pronounced swēt.

Things that follow in a series or succession; the individual objects, collectively considered, which constitute a series, as of rooms, buildings, compositions, etc.; - often written suite, and pronounced swēt.

A number of things used together, and generally necessary to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of things ordinarily classed or used together; a set; as, a suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes; a three-piece business suit.

One of the four sets of cards which constitute a pack; - each set consisting of thirteen cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades, clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit held by a player in certain games, such as bridge; as, hearts were her long suit.

Regular order; succession.

Someone who dresses in a business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire;

To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word.

To be fitted to; to accord with; to become; to befit.

To dress; to clothe.

To please; to make content; as, he is well suited with his place; to suit one's taste.

To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; - usually followed by with or to.

A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy;

A set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color;

Playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color;

A businessman dressed in a business suit;

A man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage);

A petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank

Be agreeable or acceptable to;

Be agreeable or acceptable;

Accord or comport with;

Enhance the appearance of;