Definitions for: Apt


[adj] being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply"
[adj] mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil"; "you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram Stoker



Webster (1913) Definition: Apt, a. [F. apte, L. aptus, fr. obsolete apere to fasten,
to join, to fit, akin to apisci to reach, attain: cf. Gr. ?
to fasten, Skr. [=a]pta fit, fr. [=a]p to reach attain.]
1. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.

They have always apt instruments. --Burke.

A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb. --Jer.
Taylor.

2. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely;
-- used of things.

My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot
or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. --Temple.

This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of
the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. --Lubbock.

3. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of
persons.

Apter to give than thou wit be to ask. --Beau. & Fl.

That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt
to remember their grandfathers. --F. Harrison.

4. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something);
quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn;
an apt scholar. ``An apt wit.'' --Johnson.

Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so
apt to die. --Shak.

I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. --Shak.

Syn: Fit; meet; suitable; qualified; inclined; disposed;
liable; ready; quick; prompt.


Apt, v. t. [L. aptare. See Aptate.]
To fit; to suit; to adapt. [Obs.] `` To apt their places.''
--B. Jonson.

That our speech be apted to edification. --Jer. Taylor.

Synonyms: apposite, appropriate, apropos, clever, intelligent, pertinent

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