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aptness

/apt/US // æpt //UK // (æpt) //

合适性,适切性,适宜性,适度

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
    • : likely: Am I apt to find him at home?
    • : unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily: an apt pupil.
    • : suited to the purpose or occasion; appropriate: an apt metaphor; a few apt remarks on world peace.
    • : Archaic. prepared; ready; willing.

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Examples

  • He had just wrapped up another National Signing Day apt to enrich the rich when he said Thursday morning, “There’s been a lack of parity since the playoff has been introduced, and that’s not because of the playoff, but it contributes to it.”

  • Comparisons to the microwave are apt in that both technologies use electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths longer than infrared light.

  • Also, they’re apt metaphors for what you’re hoping to do in bed.

  • Yet, “brilliant” is the only apt word to describe Washington’s work.

  • The note at the top of the puzzle says, “The first letters of certain grid entries in this puzzle will spell out an apt seven-letter word.”

  • The pictures are distinguished for their aptness and perfect illustrative character.

  • From her tenderest years, she discovered a wonderful aptness, and a vehement desire, for acquiring languages.

  • I have, many times, and I never see such a rock without thinking of its aptness as an illustration of this Socialist philosophy.

  • The rapidity and sinuosity of its motions, its quick spring and sharp recoil, prove the aptness of the illustration.

  • Sometimes they enshrine a pun or a conceit, or depend for their aptness upon an assonance.

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