Apposite

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Strikingly appropriate and relevant. See Synonyms at relevant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.
  • adj. Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
  • adj. Related, homologous.
  • n. Something that is apposite
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Placed near to; specifically, in botany, lying side by side, in contact, or partly united.
  • Suitable; fit; appropriate; applicable; well adapted: followed by to: as, this argument is very apposite to the case; “ready and apposite answers,” Bacon, Hen. VII., p. 120.
  • . Apt; ready in speech or answer: said of persons.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
  • Equivalent
    apropos   
    Cross Reference
    opposite   
    Form
    apposition   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    relevant    pat    appropriate    relative   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts