The difference between Appropriate and Apt
When used as adjectives, appropriate means suitable or fit, whereas apt means suitable.
Appropriate is also verb with the meaning: to make suitable.
Apt is also noun with the meaning: an apartment.
check bellow for the other definitions of Appropriate and Apt
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Appropriate as an adjective:
Suitable or fit; proper.
Examples:
"The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better."
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Appropriate as an adjective:
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
Examples:
"I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place."
"While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended."
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Appropriate as an adjective (obsolete):
Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
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Appropriate as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To make suitable; to suit.
Examples:
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Appropriate as a verb (transitive):
To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
Examples:
"Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."
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Appropriate as a verb (transitive):
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
Examples:
"A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden."
"to appropriate money for the increase of the navy"
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Appropriate as a verb (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal):
To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
Examples:
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Apt as an adjective:
Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
Examples:
"Tonight there’s a full moon, which is apt, since the election night will bring out the lunatics."
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Apt as an adjective (of persons or things):
Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
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Apt as an adjective:
Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert
Examples:
"a pupil apt to learn"
"an apt scholar"
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Apt as a noun:
An apartment; a flat
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