- apt words
- Words proper to produce the legal effect for which they are intended; sound technical phrases
Black's law dictionary. HENRY CAMPBELL BLACK, M. A.. 1990.
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apt words — Words proper to produce the legal effect for which they are intended; sound technical phrases … Black's law dictionary
apt — 1 happy, felicitous, appropriate, fitting, *fit, suitable, meet, proper Analogous words: apposite, pertinent, *relevant, apropos: pat, timely, opportune (see SEASONABLE): telling, convincing, compelling (see VALID): right, nice, precise, exact… … New Dictionary of Synonyms
apt — apt, liable, prone 1. Used with to, prone is by far the most common statistically, liable comes second, and apt, perhaps surprisingly, trails in third place. 2. Apt to and liable to, followed by an infinitive, are virtually interchangeable,… … Modern English usage
apt — [[t]æ̱pt[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED An apt remark, description, or choice is especially suitable. The words of this report are as apt today as in 1929. ...an apt description of the situation. Syn: apposite Derived words: aptly ADV GRADED ...the beach in… … English dictionary
apt, liable, likely — Distinctions in the meanings of these words have broken down somewhat, but careful speakers continue to observe them. Apt suggests fitness or tendency: Jake is apt in physics. Liable implies exposure to something unwanted, disadvantageous, or… … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
apt — [14] Apt comes from Latin aptus ‘fit, suited’, the past participle of the verb apere ‘fasten’. Other English words from this source are adapt, adapt, adept, inept, and (with the Latin prefix com ) couple and copulation. Related words are found in … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
apt — [14] Apt comes from Latin aptus ‘fit, suited’, the past participle of the verb apere ‘fasten’. Other English words from this source are adapt, adapt, adept, inept, and (with the Latin prefix com ) couple and copulation. Related words are found in … Word origins
apt — Synonyms and related words: Daedalian, a propos, ad rem, adapted, adept, adroit, alert, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, artistic, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bent, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, clean, clever, comely,… … Moby Thesaurus
apt to — Synonyms and related words: answerable for, calculated to, capable of, dependent on, disposed to, exposed to, given to, in danger of, incident to, inclined to, liable to, likely to, minded to, naked to, obliged to, open to, predisposed to, prone… … Moby Thesaurus
List of Latin words with English derivatives — This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article both… … Wikipedia
