Apposite vs Suitable - What's the difference?
apposite | suitable |
Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.
* c.1833-1856 , Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol'', in '' ,
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* 1919 , , Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,
Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
* 1971 , University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , Volume 34,
Related, homologous.
* 2000 , David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles'', in ''Pericles: Critical Essays ,
(rare) Something that is
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Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.
As adjectives the difference between apposite and suitable
is that apposite is appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit while suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.As a noun apposite
is (rare) something that is.apposite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation;.
- Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.’s Aunt had a great deal of spirit.
- Rough-neck'' is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English ''navvy , and it is over-whelmingly more American.
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- In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.
- If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.
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