Word Meanings - APPOSITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly, adv. -- Ap"po*site*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPOSITE)

• Apt
• Fit
• apposite
• clever
• meet
• liable
• becoming
• appropriate
• ready
• fitting
• suitable
• pertinent
• qualified
• prompt
• adapted
• likely

Related words: (words related to APPOSITE)

• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• PERTINENT
  1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
• QUALIFIER
  , One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• PROMPTUARY
  Of or pertaining to preparation. Bacon.
• PROMPT-NOTE
  A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• PROMPTNESS
  1. Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action. 2. Cheerful willingness; alacrity.
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• LIKELY
  1. Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story. It seems likely that he was in hope of being busy and conspicuous. Johnson. 2. Having probability; having or giving reason to expect; -- followed by the infinitive; as, it is likely to
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.