Fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind: I like to think I'm pretty well fitted to my life, but there's lots of evidence I have plenty I still need to learn. I'm still a single guy, I still don't own my own home, and I have many of the traits my parents were thinking of when they used the word bachelor as a pejorative. I remember my dad telling me once about the bachelor who lived up the road from them when he was a kid. The guy was in his mid-thirties, apparently hadn't really settled into any one job, drank, and generally just wasn't acting like a grownup was supposed to at the time (the 1930s). That all sounds pretty familiar to me. I guess it's a good thing I don't live