pertinent

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Very moderate and pertinent are also the further words of the speaker: "Of course, a philosophically trained investigator will regard it as axiomatic that the organisms which inhabit our earth to-day did not exist in their present form in earlier periods of the earth and that they had to pass through a process of development, beginning with the simplest forms."

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  1. adjective Having logical precise relevance to the matter at hand. See Synonyms at relevant.

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  • Time has refuted the purblind purists, the chilly “wet-blankets”; and the Lincoln stories, bright, penetrative, piquant, and pertinent are our classics. —  The Lincoln Story Book
  • As Michael Lewis and David Einhorn point out, the pertinent issue was how little interest anyone inside the financial system had in exposing such stupendous levels of fraud: "The fixable problem isn't the greed of the few but the misaligned interests of the many." —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • (16 March 2009) - Combining science with art to talk about some of the pertinent issues of our times, Andreas Nicholas Fischer's data sculptures are beautiful executions of scientific information. —  Cool Hunting
  • He does figure that out, and along the way, he figures out some other pertinent issues too. —  PopMatters
  • But she says the pertinent issue that most organisations are facing now is the question of affordability.
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relevant ·  applicable ·  helpful ·  crucial ·  irrelevant ·  apt ·  valid ·  informative ·  instructive ·  compel ·  conclusive ·  controversial
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  1. Middle English, from Old French partenant, pertinent, from Latin pertinēns, pertinent-, present participle of pertinēre, to pertain; see pertain.

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  1. from French pertinent = Spanish pertinente = Portuguese pertinente, pertencente = Italian pertinente, pertenente, from Latin pertinen(t-)s, present participle of pertinere, pertain, concern: see pertain. Cf. appertinent, appurtenant.
 

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