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apposite

[ ap-uh-zit, uh-poz-it ]

adjective

  1. suitable; well-adapted; pertinent; relevant; apt:

    an apposite answer.



apposite

/ ˈæəɪ /

adjective

  1. well suited for the purpose; appropriate; apt
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈDzٱ, adverb
  • ˈDzٱԱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • p·ٱ· adjective
  • p·ٱ·Ա noun
  • ܲ·p·ٱ adjective
  • un·p·ٱ· adverb
  • un·p·ٱ·Ա noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of apposite1

1615–25; < Latin appositus added to, put near (past participle of ōԱ ), equivalent to ap- ap- 1 + positus placed ( posi- place + -tus past participle suffix)
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of apposite1

C17: from Latin appositus placed near, from ōԱ, from ōԱ to put, place
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On guitar, she played a mash-up of A Place In This World, from her debut album, and 1989's New Romantics, with the apposite lyric: "Heartbreak is the national anthem / We sing it proudly."

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Depression had not previously been the subject of comedy, but it seemed appropriately apposite to a year of national self-celebration.

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The play ends with Alvita and her husbands singing along to Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman,” which is both apposite and wrong.

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Many of the people at these crowds — the “beautiful ‘boaters,’” as Trump so appositely calls them — are quite prosperous, yet they live in the least-prosperous areas, the exurbs and the small towns of flyover states.

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Overnight, we heard the British national anthem, “God Save the Queen,” updated to reflect the kingdom’s new reality, its apposite monarch tweaked in the title, its pronouns abruptly swung back to the masculine.

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