apt

1. a. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. Source: opted

2. a. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things. Source: opted

3. a. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons. Source: opted

4. a. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar. Source: opted

5. v. t. To fit; to suit; to adapt. Source: opted

6. adj. (usually followed by ‘to’) naturally disposed toward Source: wordnet

7. adj. at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant Source: wordnet

8. adj. mentally quick and resourceful Source: wordnet

9. adj. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence Source: wordnet

10. 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. To fit; to suit; to adapt. [Obs.] " To apt their places." B. Jonson. That our speech be apted to edification. Jer. Taylor. Source: webster

11. To fit; to suit; to adapt. [Obs.] " To apt their places." B.Jonson.That our speech be apted to edification. Jer. Taylor. Source: adambom

12. j:100 s. (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed toward s. at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant s. mentally quick and resourceful Source: ecdict

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