Tuesday word: Apposite

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Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2024

Apposite (adjective)
ap·po·site [ap-uh-zit, uh-poz-it]

adjective
1. suitable; well-adapted; pertinent; relevant; apt: an apposite answer.

OTHER WORDS FROM APPOSITE
ap·po·site·ly, adjective
ap·po·site·ness, noun
un·ap·po·site, adjective
un·ap·po·site·ly, adverb
un·ap·po·site·ness, noun

WORDS RELATED TO APPOSITE
germane, relevant, suitable, timely

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ORIGIN: 1615–25; < Latin appositus added to, put near (past participle of apponere), equivalent to ap-ap- + positus placed (posi- place + -tus past participle suffix)

HOW TO USE APPOSITE IN A SENTENCE
These remarks, as will appear in the sequel, are apposite to the parties which I am about to introduce to the reader.
NEWTON FORSTER | CAPTAIN FREDERICK MARRYAT

This, from him, so unexpectedly apposite, had the effect upon her of a Providential interposition.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES | THOMAS HARDY

This prophecy was strengthened by apposite quotations showing the existing drift of opinion in the United States.
THE CANADIAN DOMINION | OSCAR D. SKELTON

Yet that it was eminently apposite is evident from the whole course of the subsequent discussions.
THE WAR UPON RELIGION | REV. FRANCIS A. CUNNINGHAM

To borrow an apposite expression from M. Texte, it is an organism whose evolution has accomplished its course.
DE LIBRIS: PROSE AND VERSE | AUSTIN DOBSON