Trusty vs Apt - What's the difference?
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Reliable or trustworthy.
A trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges.
* 1941 , James Howell Street, In my father's house
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 58:
*:The cell block is clean and doesn't smell of disinfectant. The trusties do all the work. The supply of trusties is always ample.
Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
(of persons or things) Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
* (1628–1699)
* (1834-1913)
* (Fairfax Harrison) (1869-1938)
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
* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:(Although I) live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.
Trusty is a related term of apt.
As nouns the difference between trusty and apt
is that trusty is a trusted person, especially a prisoner who has been granted special privileges while apt is .As an adjective trusty
is reliable or trustworthy.As a proper noun apt is
.trusty
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Adjective
(er)Noun
(trusties)- We usta have a rule that if a trusty shot an escaping convict, then the trusty would go free.
apt
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Adjective
(en-adj)- Tonight there’s a full moon, which is apt , since the election night will bring out the lunatics.
- a river apt to be forded by a lamb
- My vines and peacheswere apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit.
- This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.
- that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
- An apt wit.