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Seemly vs Apropos - What's the difference?

seemly | apropos |

As adjectives the difference between seemly and apropos

is that seemly is (of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming while apropos is .

As an adverb seemly

is appropriately, fittingly.

seemly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
    • His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
  • * Hooker
    • Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

    Synonyms

    * apposite

    Antonyms

    * unseemly

    Derived terms

    * * * seemliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Appropriately, fittingly.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].

    apropos

    English

    Alternative forms

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    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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