Definition of Apt

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Definition of Apt

Apt

Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.

Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.

Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.

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

To fit; to suit; to adapt.

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Apt Quotations

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
Maya Angelou

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.
Aristotle

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.
John Locke

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.
Harry S. Truman

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.
Gertrude Stein

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
John Maynard Keynes

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.
William Penn

Apt Translations

apt in German is begabt
apt in Spanish is adecuada, apropiado, habilidoso

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