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Fitting vs Apropos - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between fitting and apropos

is that fitting is ready, appropriate, or in keeping while apropos is of an appropriate or pertinent nature.

As a verb fitting

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun fitting

is a small detachable part of a device or machine.

As a preposition apropos is

regarding or concerning.

As an adverb apropos is

by the way.

fitting

English

Alternative forms

* (ready) fittin', fittin

Verb

(head)
  • (informal, US, with infinitive) Ready, preparing.
    • I'm fitting to go home and sleep.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * (ready) fixing to (see also going to)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Ready, appropriate, or in keeping
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=David Ornstein, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Arsenal 1-0 Everton , passage=It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=June 26, author=Genevieve Koski, work=The Onion AV Club
    • , title= Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe , passage=And really, Michael Jackson is a more fitting aspiration for the similarly sexless would-be-former teen heartthrob, who’s compared himself to the late King Of Pop (perhaps a bit prematurely) on several occasions and sings in a Jackson-like croon over a sample of “We’ve Got A Good Thing Going” on Believe’s “Die In Your Arms.” }}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small detachable part of a device or machine.
  • The act of trying on clothes to inspect or adjust the fit.
  • (manufacturing) The process of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.
  • (chiefly, British) Domestic moveable piece of furniture, which can be taken along when moving out, US furnishing..
    • the fittings of a church or study

    Derived terms

    * fitting room

    apropos

    English

    Alternative forms

    * *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
  • * 1877 , ,
    • Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos .
  • by the way, incidental.
  • * 1877 ,
    • 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, incidental

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Regarding or concerning.
  • * 2011 , Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
    • 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).

    Antonyms

    * malapropos

    Derived terms

    * apropos of * apropos of nothing

    Adverb

    (head)
  • By the way.
  • Timely; at a good time.

    • Anagrams

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