apt
pronunciation
How to pronounce apt in British English:
UK [æpt]
How to pronounce apt in American English:
US [æpt]
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- Adjective:
- at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- mentally quick and resourceful
- (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward
- being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
Word Origin
- apt
- apt: [14] Apt comes from Latin aptus ‘fit, suited’, the past participle of the verb apere ‘fasten’. Other English words from this source are adapt, adapt, adept, inept, and (with the Latin prefix com-) couple and copulation. Related words are found in Indo-European languages of the Indian subcontinent: for instance, Sanskrit āpta ‘fit’.=> adapt, adept, attitude, couple, inept
- apt (adj.)
- 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- (1) "to grasp, take, reach" (cognates: Sanskrit apnoti "he reaches," Latin apisci "to reach after, attain," Hittite epmi "I seize"). Elliptical sense of "becoming, appropriate" is from 1560s.
Example
- 1. It was an apt name , as he really looked the part .
- 2. But an equally apt name would be the " great stabilisation " .
- 3. A hardworing employee like him is apt to get promoted .
- 4. But in another way , the sombre warnings are apt , and profoundly depressing .
- 5. The russian word for a protest is miting-meeting-and for once this was the more apt word for it .