Word Meanings - APT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

join, to fit, akin to apisci to reach, attain: cf. Gr. apta fit, fr. 1. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. They have always apt instruments. Burke. A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having an habitual tendency;

Additional info about word: APT

join, to fit, akin to apisci to reach, attain: cf. Gr. apta fit, fr. 1. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. They have always apt instruments. Burke. A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb. Jer. Taylor. 2. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things. My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock. 3. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons. Apter to give than thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison. 4. Ready; especially fitted or qualified ; quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. "An apt wit." Johnson. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak. Syn. -- Fit; meet; suitable; qualified; inclined; disposed; liable; ready; quick; prompt.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APT)

• Convenient
• Handy
• apt
• adapted
• fitted
• suitable
• helpful
• commodious
• useful
• timely
• seasonable
• opportune
• Fit
• Decent
• befitting
• meet
• fitting
• seemly
• appropriate
• becoming
• decorous
• qualified
• congruous
• peculiar
• particular
• prepared
• adequate
• calculated
• contrived
• expedient
• proper
• ripe
• Prompt
• Ready
• alert
• responsive
• active
• quick
• brisk
• unhesitating
• Prone
• Disposed
• inclined
• bent
• tending
• recumbent
• prostrate
• flat
• expeditions
• speedy
• dexterous
• skilful
• handy
• expert
• facile
• easy
• disposed
• willing
• free
• cheerful
• compliant

Related words: (words related to APT)

• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• SKILFUL
  See SKILFUL
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• 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;
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• WILLING
  1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• 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,
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• 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.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• SWILLINGS
  See 1