Apt: Definition and part of speech

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Apt

  1. v. t. To fit; to suit; to adapt.
  2. a. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
  3. a. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; — used of things.
  4. a. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; — used of persons.
  5. a. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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