apt

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Suitable or appropriate for the situation.

   "Bittersweet" is an apt word for how I felt about leaving.

2. 2
   adj

   Likely or having a tendency to do something.

   He is apt to forget appointments unless you remind him.

3. 3
   adj

   Quick to learn; clever.

   She was an apt pupil who mastered the piano in months.

From Old French apte, from Latin aptus (“suitable, fitting”). Either from obsolete apere (“to fasten, to join, to fit”), akin to apisci (“to reach, attain”) (compare with Greek ἅπτειν (áptein, “to fasten”) and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “fit”), from आप् (āp, “to reach, attain”)) or from *h₂ep- (“to join, fit (in)”).

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