Apt definition
An apt reply.
An apt student.
An apt remark.
Apt to rain.
An apt student.
Tonight there’s a full moon, which is apt, since the election night will bring out the lunatics.
She is apt to take offense easily.
An example of someone who is apt to lie is a politician.
An example of someone who is apt is an insightful student.
An example of something that is apt to be addictive is cigarette smoking.
Other Word Forms
Adjective
Origin of apt
- Middle English from Old French apte from Latin aptus past participle of apere to fasten
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old French apte, from Latin aptus, from obsolete apere (“to fasten, to join, to fit”), akin to apisci (“to reach, attain”); compare with Greek ἅπτειν (ἅptein, “to fasten”) and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “fit”), from आप् (āp, “to reach, attain”).
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