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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Strikingly appropriate and relevant. See Synonyms at relevant.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Placed near to; specifically, in botany, lying side by side, in contact, or partly united.
  2. 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.
  3. . Apt; ready in speech or answer: said of persons.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.
  2. 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.
  3. adj. Related, homologous.
  4. n. rare Something that is apposite

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence

Etymologies

  1. From Latin appositus, past participle of adponere, from ad- + ponere ("to put, place"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin appositus, past participle of appōnere, to put near : ad-, ad- + pōnere, to put; see apo- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • duckbill Charles John Smith, in his book Synonyms Discriminated, makes a useful distinction between apposite and relevant:

    "Apposite expresses a quality, relevant a force. A remark is apposite which harmonizes with the case under consideration. An observation is relevant which helps the main question to a decision. . . . The apposite elucidates, the relevant promotes discussion. The apposite is a proposition; the relevant either an argument, or something which links itself to an argument. Apposite remarks are commonly made in general conversation by persons not taking a main part in the discussion, but throwing in pertinent sayings as listeners. The relevant owes its force solely to its argumentative appropriateness; the apposite is also timely, and often tells with peculiar effect upon the conjuncture at which it is introduced. Apr 19, 2011

  • moreorless I love this word. Dec 29, 2009

  • oroboros Kangaroo word: APposiTe Jun 11, 2009

  • burntsox I impressed my wife -- hard to do -- by dropping this word appropriately (appositely?) into conversation. Thanks, Wordies! Oct 26, 2008

  • whichbe An apposite opposite of opposite. Aug 26, 2008

  • padawan apposite: appropiate.
    apósito: venda. Jan 9, 2008

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