aptadjective
uk/æpt/us/æpt/apt adjective (SUITABLE)
suitable or right for a particular situation:
an apt comment/description
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Suitable and acceptable
- able
- acceptable
- accepted
- accordingly
- age-appropriate
- correct
- doctor
- fit in
- fit in with sth
- fitting
- germane
- horse
- horses for courses idiom
- keeping
- satisfaction
- seasonable
- seemly
- sit right/well (with sb) idiom
- suitable
- valid
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apt adjective (LIKELY)
be apt to do sth/be apt to be sth
to be likely to do something or to often do something:
The kitchen roof is apt to (= likely to) leak when it rains.
She's in her eighties now and apt to be a little forgetful.
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Impossible and improbable
- be out of the question idiom
- beggar
- beggar belief/description idiom
- castle
- castles in the air idiom
- dream
- fat
- goodbye to sth idiom
- I should be so lucky! idiom
- impossible
- improbable
- lucky
- million
- nailing jelly to the wall idiom
- no way idiom
- snowball
- there's no danger of that! idiom
- unlikely
- untenable
- you should be so lucky! idiom
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apt adjective (ABLE)
formal having a natural ability or skill:
We have some particularly apt students in the class this year.
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Intelligence
- acuity
- acumen
- agile
- artful
- as (if) to the manner born idiom
- astute
- brilliance
- highbrow
- horse sense
- imaginative
- ingenious
- ingenuity
- profound
- quick-witted
- razor-sharp
- ready
- resource
- resourceful
- resourcefulness
- scholarly
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aptly
adverb uk/ˈæpt.li/us/ˈæpt.li/
We spent a week at the aptly named Grand View Hotel.
aptness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈæpt.nəs/us/ˈæpt.nəs/
the aptness of his comment
old-fashioned formal an aptness for/at drawing