apt
- inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
- likely: Am I apt to find him at home?
- 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
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Related Words for apt
relevant, appropriate, felicitous, fitting, apropos, suitable, correct, happy, likely, prone, adept, intelligent, able, smart, applicable, apposite, befitting, fit, germane, justExamples from the Web for apt
Contemporary Examples of apt
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.
Their timing is apt: The medical examiner is now a hot commodity in TV-land.
The goal came off his tummy inside the Portuguese box, an apt way to score for a very gutsy player.
Bryan is very interested in World War II, which was a very big part of X-Men, Valkyrie, and Apt Pupil.
Historical Examples of apt
She was distrustful of the future, and apt to anticipate bad fortune.
Brave and BoldHoratio Alger
She was apt not only to know what she talked about, but she was a woman of resource, unafraid of action.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Sympathetic persons are apt to assume that every refined emotion must be ennobling.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
He confessed to me that he was apt to go astray when intent on rhyme.
Biographical SketchesNathaniel Hawthorne
The St. is an apt illustration of the probable workings of Plautus' mind.
The Dramatic Values in PlautusWilton Wallace Blancke
apt
- 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)
Word Origin for apt
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Word Origin and History for apt
mid-14c., "inclined, disposed;" late 14c., "suited, fitted, adapted," from Old French ate (13c., Modern French apte), or directly from Latin aptus "fit, suited," adjectival use of past participle of *apere "to attach, join, tie to," from PIE root *ap- "to grasp, take, reach" (cf. Sanskrit apnoti "he reaches," Latin apisci "to reach after, attain," Hittite epmi "I seize"). Elliptical sense of "becoming, appropriate" is from 1560s.