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/ɐpˈɒsɪt/
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ADJECTIVE
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being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
an apt reply
the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images
How To Use apposite In A Sentence
- All this makes him an apposite starting point for those on the far right in search of intellectual sugarcoating.
- Kipling's low opinion of English rugby has rarely seemed more apposite. Times, Sunday Times
- If this does come about, the ensuing paralysis will surely be an apposite commentary on the unhappy state of affairs we have reached where no party seems to deserve to govern us.
- His observations are, indeed, apposite to the present discussion.
- That seems apposite to us today. Times, Sunday Times
- In addition, value theory is apposite in the current renewal of interest in the economy across the social sciences.
- It comes at an apposite moment. Times, Sunday Times
- It seems apposite that the accident occurred in Stoke-on-Trent, centre of the ceramic industry. Times, Sunday Times
- What could be more apposite, more relevant to our predicament as a nation, today?
- But I dubitate whether this abstruser sort of speculation (though enlivened by some apposite instances from Aristophanes) would sufficiently interest your oppidan readers. The Biglow Papers