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Grammar : Adj
Spell : apt
Phonetic Transcription : æpt



Definition of apt

Origin :
  • 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.
  • adj suitable
  • adj tending, inclined
  • adj quick to learn
Example sentences :
  • She was distrustful of the future, and apt to anticipate bad fortune.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • She was apt not only to know what she talked about, but she was a woman of resource, unafraid of action.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Sympathetic persons are apt to assume that every refined emotion must be ennobling.
  • Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • He confessed to me that he was apt to go astray when intent on rhyme.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The St. is an apt illustration of the probable workings of Plautus' mind.
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
  • Men in his condition were apt to be as quick with a blow as with a caress.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • I'm afraid Diablo'll shut up when he's pinched; his kind are apt to do that.
  • Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
  • After her departure, I remarked that the symbol was none of the most apt.
  • Extract from : « Chippings With A Chisel (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • It is said that people are apt to suffer more by their friends than their enemies.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • It is too apt to govern itself by what a bold spirit is encouraged to expect of it.
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

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