aptness


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apt

 (ăpt)
adj.
1. Exactly suitable; appropriate: an apt reply.
2. Having a natural tendency; inclined: She is apt to take offense easily. See Usage Note at liable.
3. Quick to learn or understand: an apt student.
[Middle English, from Old French apte, from Latin aptus, past participle of apere, to fasten.]
apt′ly adv.
apt′ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.aptness - a disposition to behave in a certain way; "the aptness of iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread"
propensity
disposition - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"
2.aptness - appropriateness for the occasion; "the phrase had considerable aptness"
appositeness
appropriateness - the quality of being specially suitable
inappositeness, inaptness - inappropriateness; "greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine"
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aptness

noun
An innate capability:
aptitude, bent, faculty, flair, genius, gift, head, instinct, knack, talent, turn.
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Translations
مُلائَمَة
vhodnost
egnethedskarphed
réttleiki, viîeiganleiki; hnyttni
uygunluk

aptness

[ˈæptnɪs] N [of name, description] → lo acertado, lo apropiado; [of remark] → lo acertado, lo oportuno
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

aptness

n
(= suitability) the aptness of the name was obvious → der Name war offensichtlich passend
(= aptitude) → Begabung f
(= liability, likelihood) → Neigung f
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

aptness

[ˈæptnɪs] n → opportunità f inv
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

apt

(ӕpt) adjective
1. (with to) likely. He is apt to get angry if you ask a lot of questions.
2. suitable. an apt remark.
3. clever; quick to learn. an apt student.
ˈaptly adverb
ˈaptness noun
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It was for herself that he loved Tess; her soul, her heart, her substance--not for her skill in the dairy, her aptness as his scholar, and certainly not for her simple formal faith-professions.
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Mr Verloc was not a well-read person; his range of allusive phrases was limited, but there was a peculiar aptness in circumstances which made him think of rats leaving a doomed ship.
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The descriptive aptness of the phrase caught the house, and a mighty burst of laughter followed.
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I marvelled at its aptness, and also that it should have come to me so pat.
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