Apposite

//ˈæp.ə.zɪt//

Synonyms for "apposite" (79 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Related word relations

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6 relation types

Antonyms

1 entries

Synonyms

2 entries

Related terms

5 entries

derived

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related to

9 entries

similar

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Translations

34 translations across 15 languages.

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Catalan

2 entries
  • avinent adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • escaient adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Cornish

1 entries
  • gwiw adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Dutch

2 entries
  • passend adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • treffend adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Esperanto

3 entries
  • konvena adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • taŭga adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • trafa adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Finnish

4 entries
  • rinnakkainen adj (positioned at rest in respect to another, in apposition)
  • rinnakkainen adj (related, homologous)
  • sopiva adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • vierekkäinen adj (positioned at rest in respect to another, in apposition)

German

2 entries
  • passend adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • treffend adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Hindi

2 entries
  • अच्छा adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • ठीक adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Hungarian

3 entries
  • helyénvaló adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • odaillő adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • találó adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Manx

1 entries
  • traaoil adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Persian

1 entries
  • درخور adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Polish

2 entries
  • stosowny adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • właściwy adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • aposto adj (positioned at rest in respect to another, in apposition)
  • apropriado adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Russian

4 entries
  • го́дный adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • подходя́щий adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • соотве́тствующий adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • уда́чный adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • iomchaidh adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Spanish

3 entries
  • apropiado adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • oportuno adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)
  • pertinente adj (appropriate, relevant, well-suited)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

It is, however, apposite to note that this process will continue in the year ahead.

Source: tatoeba (2654408)

In their minds, a joke is always apposite.

Source: tatoeba (9969663)

The addition, from whatever source it was obtained, does not appear to me to be at all apposite, and therefore I conceive it to be spurious.

Source: tatoeba (9969707)

c. 1833–1856, Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2/3, Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation; ….

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.