Incidentally vs Apropos - What's the difference?
incidentally | apropos | Synonyms |
(manner) In an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance.
By chance; in an unplanned way.
(speech act, conjunctive) Parenthetically, by the way.
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.
Apropos is a synonym of incidentally.
As adverbs the difference between incidentally and apropos
is that incidentally is in an incidental manner; not of central or critical importance while apropos is by the way.As an adjective apropos is
of an appropriate or pertinent nature.As a preposition apropos is
regarding or concerning.incidentally
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- The book discussed the subject, but only incidentally .
- Incidentally , did you hear anything new from your brother yesterday?
Synonyms
apropos, as a matter of fact, by the wayAntonyms
* (in an incidental manner) inevitably, certainlyapropos
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).
