Adaptable vs Apropos - What's the difference?
adaptable | apropos | Related terms |
Capable of adapting or of being adapted.
* {{quote-book, author=Sabine Baring-Gould, title=, year=1901
, passage=Joan was adaptable , and easily fell in with the prevalent tone. She played her small jokes on each, and this readily dissolved restraint, and put all on terms of easy friendship.}}
Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
* 1877 , ,
by the way, incidental.
* 1877 ,
Regarding or concerning.
* 2011 , Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
By the way.
Timely; at a good time.
Adaptable is a related term of apropos.
As adjectives the difference between adaptable and apropos
is that adaptable is capable of adapting or of being adapted while apropos is .adaptable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)References
* ----apropos
English
Alternative forms
* *Adjective
(en adjective)- Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos .
- Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine."
Synonyms
* (by the way) by the way, incidentally, incidentalPreposition
(English prepositions)- Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).