| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| apposite |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | ap·po·site |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   p  -z t |
| ADJECTIVE: | Strikingly appropriate and relevant. See synonyms at relevant. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin appositus, past participle of app nere, to put near : ad-, ad- + pnere, to put; see apo- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | appo·site·ly —ADVERB
appo·site·ness —NOUN
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
