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[ US /ˈæpt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward
he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant
I am not minded to answer any questions -
mentally quick and resourceful
an apt pupil
you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold -
being of striking appropriateness and pertinence
an apt reply
the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images -
at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
he is apt to lose
she is liable to forget
How To Use apt In A Sentence
- The captain's armband must have special powers because he's been brilliant. Times, Sunday Times
- You would be hard pressed to find a young captain or major who hadn't flown combat sorties in the area of operations.
- If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
- The Temple to the Hebrew God YHVH, built by King David, was destroyed and much of the Jewish population (Jew comes from the word Judah, one of the 12 tribes) were deported to Babylon, known to Jews as the Babylonian captivity. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces. A Disclaimer for Behe?
- Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
- This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
- Food sharing with nonkin reduces the costs to kin of child rearing, but also reduces the resources recaptured by kin after an infant death, so evolved infant mortality is lower. Archive 2008-06-01
- Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
- Unlike the other swap deals, this deal, called a "swaption," is on a fixed-rate bond. Undefined