Adjective

(en-adj)

Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.

Tonight there’s a full moon, which is apt , since the election night will bring out the lunatics.

* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)

a river apt to be forded by a lamb

(of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.

* (1628–1699)

My vines and peacheswere apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit.

* (1834-1913)

This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.

* (Fairfax Harrison) (1869-1938)

that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers

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

An apt wit.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:(Although I) live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Relating to the law or to lawyers.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}

Having its basis in the law.

Being allowed or prescribed by law.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-23, volume=408, issue=8850, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Waking life , passage=After 50 years, legal segregation is a distant memory, and race in America is not the unbridgeable chasm it once was. The country has a black president. The sort of comity that King evoked, in which the descendants of slaves and of slave owners “sit down together at the table of brotherhood”, can be found in many places, including the Deep South. The rate of marriage between blacks and whites is rising.}}

(informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.