Apposite

Word APPOSITE
Character 8
Hyphenation ap po site
Pronunciations /ˈa.pə.zɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "Apposite"

What do we mean by apposite?

Appropriate or relevant. adjective

Placed near to; specifically, in botany, lying side by side, in contact, or partly united.

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.

. Apt; ready in speech or answer: said of persons.

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

Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit. adjective

Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition. adjective

Related, homologous. adjective

Something that is apposite noun

Being of striking appropriateness and pertinence adjective

That which is apposite; something suitable.

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The word "apposite" in example sentences

The title is apposite: Kravitz straddles the divide like no other with his drop-dead girlfriends and pads. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Also, that Woody Allen story that Antid linked is kind of apposite, and funny. jhupp Says: ❋ Unknown (2007)

That's Jorge Grau, director of the cannibal zombie classic The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue... kind of apposite because this was at the annual Festival of Fantastic Films in Manchester, where the two of us helped out with the presentation work for more years than I care to count. ❋ Stephen Gallagher (2008)

The line feels apposite because Warpaint make music to submerge yourself in, limpid on the surface, eddying beneath. ❋ Maddy Costa (2010)

Coming a day before Greek public sector workers plan another full day's strike, the report was particularly apposite. ❋ Patience Wheatcroft (2010)

"Sensory Crossovers" makes the opposite mistake, taking a New Mexicentric viewpoint that privileges Georgia O'Keeffe and her Stieglitzian friends (Arthur Dove, Helen Torr, Charles Demuth, Burchfield), for instance, or the Taos couple Louis Ribak and Beatrice Mandelman over equally apposite practitioners such as Fischinger and Russell. ❋ Peter Frank (2010)

Giving the subject postapocalyptic trappings promises fresh interest, but it also seems to require some sort of apposite revelation or philosophical conjecture. ❋ Alexander Theroux (2011)

Few writers of criticism are able to combine such a compelling and frankly "superior" prose with correspondingly apposite critical insights as does William Gass. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Two of his aphorisms in particular – "The medium is the message" and "We shape our tools and later they shape us" – seem particularly apposite. ❋ Unknown (2012)

This poor beastie is an amphioxus, though a more apposite appellation might have been "anxious". ❋ Unknown (2012)

When would be the apposite time to slap the Captain and take control? ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Your questions about poetry are very apposite, although of course the answer is that this is neither fish nor fowl, and the very undecidability is another tension line along which the work progresses. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That last subject receives brief attention in a narrow hallway at the end of the show, leading to the gift shop, but the few prints on view seem to have been chosen as much for their familiar names—Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Jacob van Ruisdael—as for apposite formal comparisons. ❋ Jonathan Lopez (2012)

So this seems like an apposite moment to look at the state of Britain's major morning giveaway newspaper. ❋ Roy Greenslade (2010)

A very apposite complement to the OBO I've just read. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It may be almost 90 years old, but The Great Gatsby is as apposite as ever. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Chadha is entirely apposite: if Congress has no place in the chain of command, if indeed the Constitution BARS congress from having such a role, members of Congress can hardly be held legally responsible for actions they neither commanded nor controlled even if it winked at them very very hard. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hunt down the most apposite or amenable folks and spread the inbox love to spare the pain! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I first encountered Rossini, for instance, in Chuck Jones's "Rabbit of Seville," which made brilliantly apposite use of the "Barber of Seville" overture as background music for one of the looniest of all Looney Tunes cartoons. ❋ Terry Teachout (2011)

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