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apposite

[ap-uh-zit, uh-poz-it]

adjective

suitable; well-adapted; pertinent; relevant; apt: an apposite answer.

Origin:
1615–25; < Latin appositus added to, put near (past participle of appōnere), equivalent to ap- ap-¹ + positus placed (posi- place + -tus past participle suffix)

Related forms

ap·po·site·ly, adjective

ap·po·site·ness, noun

un·ap·po·site, adjective

un·ap·po·site·ly, adverb

un·ap·po·site·ness, noun

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apposite (ˈæpəzɪt)

—*adj*
	well suited for the purpose; appropriate; apt

[C17: from Latin appositus placed near, from appōnere, from pōnere to put, place]

'appositely

—*adv*

'appositeness

—n

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Word Origin & History

apposite

1620s, "well-put or applied, appropriate," from L. appositus, pp. of apponere "apply to, put near," from ad- "near" + ponere "to place" (see position).

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"The great leading distinction between writing and speaking is, that more time is allowed for the one than the other, and hence different faculties are required for, and different objects attained by each. He is properly the best speaker who can collect together the greatest number of apposite ideas at a moment's warning; he is properly the best writer who can give utterance to the greatest quantity of valuable knowledge in the course of his whole life. The chief requisite for the one, then, appears to be quickness and facility of perception—for the other, patience of soul and a power increasing with the difficulties it has to master. He cannot be denied to be an expert speaker, a lively companion, who is never at a loss for something to say on every occasion or subject that offers. He, by the same rule, will make a respectable writer who, by dint of study, can find out anything good to say upon any one point that has not yet been touched upon before, or who by asking for time, can give the most complete and comprehensive view of any question. The one must be done off-hand, at a single blow; the other can only be done by a repetition of blows, by having time to think and do better."

-William Hazlitt

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