Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Being both pertinent and fitting. See Synonyms at relevant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. Related to the topic being discussed or considered.
- n. inorganic chemistry germanium tetrahydride, GeH4
- n. organic chemistry, especially in combination Any organic derivative of this compound.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relevant and appropriate
Etymologies
- Variant form of german, adapted in this sense in allusions to its use in Shakespeare's Hamlet. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English germain, having the same parents, closely connected; see german2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Most germane is its inclusion of uncertainty in any interpretation of reality and the facts.”
“By defining the McCain 'culture war' attacks as 'lies,' the Obama camp deflected those points and stepped immediately into the act of re-stating their opening 'hope' frame in new terms germane to the moment: 'solve real problems”
“And there is another part which is certainly not less ridiculous, but being a trade in learning must be called by some name germane to the matter?”
“Possibly the spirit of the artist is foreign to you, sir, yet perhaps I may put it in terms germane to your own profession.”
“Cosmo and Damian were brethren germane, that is of one father and of one mother, and were of the city Egea, and born of a religious mother named”
“But in his whole presentation of God and our relation to him, there was neither thought nor phrase germane to sunrise or sunset, to the firmament or the wind or the grass or the trees; nothing that came to the human soul as having a reality true as that of the world but higher; as holding with the life lived in it, with the hopes and necessities of the heart and mind.”
“Both efforts were thwarted by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who ruled that they were not "germane" to the legislation under consideration.”
The Huffington Post: Taxpayer-Owned Fannie Mae Attacks Struggling Homeowners
“Academic freedom" only protects a professor's speech that is "germane" to the class 'subject.”
Greg Lukianoff: UC Santa Barbara Investigates Professor for Anti-Israel E-Mail
“And yet, allegations are made here by posters that McCain failed to vett her, that Palin claimed the baby as her own, that Palin did a disservice to herself, and that Palin's falsely-alleged actions are now "germane" to the person and campaign.”
My Take on Covering Potentially Taboo Topics Like Bristol Palin's Baby on OEN
“He felt 'black people' were not 'germane' to his plot.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘germane’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 272 more...
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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From reading
Collected from reading
venerate, reprobate, reticent, adoration, ethereal, ephemeral, equivocal, contumacious, heinous, solicitous, agnostic, aberration and 335 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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GRE Practice
coruscate, preternatural, preclude, retrench, perfidy, sophistry, sedulous, martinet, churlish, dissembler, prevarication, impugn and 38 more...
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scholarly writing words
decrement, replete, impel, iterative, subsume, tacit, vex, denote, impart, ascertain, coalesce, extant and 49 more...
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ash vocab
flippant, fillip, expiate, explicate, extirpate, facile, florid, fealty, allegiance, fetid, febrile, pert and 134 more...
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GRE Reference
A list of words unfamiliar to me that I have repeatedly encountered in GRE question sets.
parochial, clique, salacious, aegis, ostracize, conceited, sacrilegious, inane, serendipity, gourmand, polemic, tenuous and 138 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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ICE
quincunx, adoxography, panjundrum, breloque, surd, scripturient, rousant, favrile, embouchure, aquarelle, griffonage, sussultatory and 491 more...
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Words
teeter, headlong, reprobate, canard, ersatz, prevaricate, trenchant, minatory, fatuous, stultify, vitiate, fulminate and 135 more...
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