What does "apt" mean?
Abbreviation of apartment.
Apt
/æpt/ adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Abbreviation of apartment.
- Grammar: apt is listed as adj, name, noun.
- Nearest alternatives: liable, tending, a good fit, a propos.
- Useful contrasts: inept, immune, improper.
- Usage evidence: The rich are apt to look down upon the poor.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Abbreviation of apartment. abbreviation, alt-of
"Where our apt used to be they built a fancy condominium high-rise. Which at a lowly income none of us could ever really quite afford."
- 2 Initialism of automation presses tooling. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 3 Initialism of advanced passenger train. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt.. US, abbreviation, alt-of
- 5 Initialism of advanced persistent threat. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
"The FBI has linked the incident to a North Korean APT it tracks as TraderTraitor, which the agency has been monitoring since 2022 for its attacks on blockchain companies."
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- 6 Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 7 Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 8 Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Adjective
- 1 Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
"an apt metaphor"
- 2 Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
"This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant."
- 3 Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.
"a pupil apt to learn"
Adjective
- 1 being of striking appropriateness and pertinence wordnet
- 2 (usually followed by ‘to’) naturally disposed toward wordnet
- 3 mentally quick and resourceful wordnet
- 4 at risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 2 A surname.
- 3 Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 4 Initialism of Alabama Public Television. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
- 5 Initialism of American Public Television. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Synonyms
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Example
"The rich are apt to look down upon the poor."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "apt"?
Common synonyms include: liable, tending, a good fit, a propos, ad rem, adapted.
How do you use "apt" in a sentence?
The rich are apt to look down upon the poor.
How do you pronounce "apt"?
Pronounced /æpt/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Old French apte, from Latin aptus (“suitable, fitting”). Either from obsolete apere (“to fasten, to join, to fit”), akin to apisci (“to reach, attain”) (compare with Greek ἅπτειν (áptein, “to fasten”) and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “fit”), from आप् (āp, “to reach, attain”)) or from *h₂ep- (“to join, fit (in)”).
Etymology 2
Two possible origins: * A variant of Abt, a surname of German origin. * Borrowed from Yiddish אַפּט (apt), a habitational surname from the town of Opatów, in Poland.