Apt vs Ample - What's the difference?
apt | ample | Related terms |
Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
(of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
* (1628–1699)
* (1834-1913)
* (Fairfax Harrison) (1869-1938)
Ready]]; especially fitted or [[qualify, qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
* (rfdate) Johnson
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:(Although I) live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.
Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
* All the people in that ample house Did to that image bow their humble knees. --Spenser.
Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.
Not contracted or brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.
Apt is a related term of ample.
As a noun apt
is .As a proper noun apt
is .As an adjective ample is
large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.apt
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- Tonight there’s a full moon, which is apt , since the election night will bring out the lunatics.
- a river apt to be forded by a lamb
- My vines and peacheswere apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit.
- This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.
- that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
- An apt wit.