Something apt is perfectly appropriate, clever and well suited to the matter at hand. A "Cinderella story" might be an apt metaphor for an underdog team that makes it to the championships.
Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
Adjective S.
being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply"
Adjective S.
mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil"; "you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram Stoker
a.
Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
a.
Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; --
used of things.
a.
Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of
persons.
a.
Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick
to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
v. t.
To fit; to suit; to adapt.
Apt
They have always apt instruments.
A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb.2.
My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit.
This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.3.
Apter to give than thou wit be to ask.
That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers.4.
Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.
I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear.
Apt
That our speech be apted to edification.
Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
To fit; to suit; to adapt.
Usage Examples
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.
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Other Usage ExamplesFear is not in the habit of speaking truth when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
The beautiful spring came and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
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