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
usage note For apt
Other words for apt
Other words from apt
- apt·ly, adverb
- apt·ness, noun
- o·ver·apt, adjective
- o·ver·apt·ness, noun
Other definitions for apt. (2 of 2)
Origin of apt.
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How to use apt in a sentence
Naturally and without the least effort the aptest words sprang to his lips in perfect order and sequence.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph TatlowIt is with his own so beautiful talk, his ability to hear his own voice in the rounded paragraph, that he is aptest to charm one.
Instigations | Ezra PoundThe poet and his brother Gilbert were the aptest pupils in the school, and were generally at the head of the class.
Life of Robert Burns | Thomas CarlyleHe had the most winning tongue, and the aptest spirit in the world to divine the natural inclinations of those he consorted with.
Constance Sherwood | Lady Georgiana FullertonBut refinement, as it is the less beautiful, so it is the more dangerous extreme, and what we are the aptest to fall into.
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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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