apt
unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily: an apt pupil.
suited to the purpose or occasion; appropriate: an apt metaphor; a few apt remarks on world peace.
Archaic. prepared; ready; willing.
Origin of apt
1synonym study For apt
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Other words for apt
Other words from apt
- apt·ly, adverb
- apt·ness, noun
- o·ver·apt, adjective
- o·ver·apt·ness, noun
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Other definitions for apt. (2 of 2)
Origin of apt.
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How to use apt in a sentence
With in-room dining, a single oversight — the wrong wine — can be “a five- or 10-minute mistake,” since servers are apt to be out of view.
Now that’s room service: What it’s like to check into a hotel just for dinner | Tom Sietsema | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostTake a deep breath and pay attention because we’re going to outline the 11 best ways you can use Google Trends to come up with apt keywords.
A comprehensive guide on using Google Trends for keyword research | Aayush Gupta | February 12, 2021 | Search Engine WatchThat said, as the platform continues to gain ground, buyers say advertisers will have to invest in creating content specific for TikTok’s highly engaged audience, who is not as apt to interact with material that’s not native to the app experience.
‘The momentum is there’: In 2021, marketers are starting to see TikTok as a staple of the social budget | Kristina Monllos | February 12, 2021 | DigidayBourquin wanted to see breaking at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, a more apt platform and a friendly way to introduce the sport to Olympic officials, who skew older.
How break dancing made the leap from ’80s pop culture to the Olympic stage | Rick Maese | February 9, 2021 | Washington PostWildfire seemed a more apt description of the disease than the straightforward scientific discussion of a virus and its vectors, perhaps because “virus” was already in use to describe the disinformation that enabled covid to scorch the Earth.
The virus caused more than a pandemic. It set us all ablaze. | Philip Kennicott | February 5, 2021 | Washington Post
But in recent days, I've found Sarah Palin an even more apt comparison.
Today, it's our governing elites, regardless of party, who are most apt rush us into the future.
Experts we talked to said the comparison between Goodell and law enforcement may not necessarily be apt.
The compilation also brought the Nazi-riffic apt Pupil and leach-tastic The Body (aka Stand By Me) to the silver screen.
20 Things You Didn’t Know About 'The Shawshank Redemption' | Bill Schulz | August 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir timing is apt: The medical examiner is now a hot commodity in TV-land.
The Dirty Secret Doctors Don't Want You To Know | Kent Sepkowitz | August 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe are apt to think of these little ones as doing right only when under compulsion: but this is far from the truth.
Children's Ways | James SullyThose of a more serious turn are apt to show a curious preference for the graver aspects of things.
Children's Ways | James SullyIn this country, we are apt to think when any one dresses himself up, that he is disguising a fool.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3) | Charles James WillsIn conversation their minds are apt to remain in a recipient passive state.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)But Bull in authority anywhere is apt to exhibit his horns to those whom he suspects of being nobodies.
Glances at Europe | Horace Greeley
British Dictionary definitions for apt (1 of 2)
/ (æpt) /
suitable for the circumstance or purpose; appropriate
(postpositive; foll by an infinitive) having a tendency (to behave as specified)
having the ability to learn and understand easily; clever (esp in the phrase an apt pupil)
Origin of apt
1Derived forms of apt
- aptly, adverb
- aptness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for apt. (2 of 2)
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