Synonym: acute, appropriate, astute, bright, clever, discerning, fitting, keen, likely, proper, sharp, shrewd, smart, suitable. Similar words: adapt, capture, adapt to, captain, chapter, aptitude, adaptive, adaptable. Meaning: [æpt] adj. 1. at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant 2. mentally quick and resourceful 3. (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward 4. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence.
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(91) She asks him to remember her, and he replies that he is more apt to forget anything else.
(92) At that time the metaphor of the sinking of the Titanic seemed particularly apt.
(93) Mugezi's excremental duties are an apt metaphor for the punishing regime in which he finds himself trapped.
(94) The image of cladding, although apt, exaggerates the volume of the gases.
(95) No one is more anxious that the penalties should be apt for the crime than those most immediately affected by prison disorder.
(96) Farm workers are apt to complain that they now feel like strangers in their own village.
(97) You kick aside the trash on the stairs, the clothes in the hall to reach Apt. 8.
(98) If you can readily interpret all this laconic shorthand you are either a well-tried collector or an extraordinarily apt pupil.
(99) The hearth, which stands for the sanctity of the home, is an apt object to confess her sad fate to.
(100) The quote is apt for a company that soon will be amongst the most modern and well equipped in the world.
(101) Then they used scare tactics, telling the audience that fat people were apt to succumb to something called Sudden Death syndrome.
(102) Biscoe is in tremendous form, and Brian Gooding's dynamic guitar contributions are unfailingly apt.
(103) Consequently what does not fit neatly into existing experience is anomalous and apt to seem mystically dangerous.
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(104) The manual suggests that you move the carriage as if ironing and this is a very apt description.
(105) We have therefore examined the cleavage of ApT sites within other AT-rich sequences.
(106) Our more skeptical age is apt to greet a performance like this with a smirk, as just more fussy Victorian moralism.
(107) And I am apt to nudge my boys to join me in folding the laundry while we watch a television show together.
(108) He was apt to get very upset when things went wrong.
(109) Shaw is like saltwater in the face and Margaret was apt to splutter.
(110) Attempts to rescue and re-evaluate them are apt to be less rewarding than making a fresh start.
(111) We are apt to keep our noses to the print, and to simply follow the trail of the story.
(112) Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough. Lord Chesterfield
(113) Some of the employees are apt to arrive late on Mondays.
(114) Hannah was a little less apt to become frantic in busy places, such as shopping malls and grocery stores.
(115) They are apt to talk a great deal with each other and to move freely and purposefully about the space.
(116) A theoretician is well prepared to consider what the most apt questions about works of art may be.
(117) She was apt to accuse the witnesses for the prosecution of lying.
(118) He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue.
(119) In some consonant clusters, sounds are apt to be elided, ie omitted, in rapid speech.
(120) Expressing yourself at the time of negative feelings means you will be less apt to hurt some one.