apropos

Examples

• All

• And he said, apropos what you just said, we have to have hope.

• She mentioned, apropos of nothing, that she had been thinking about moving to another city.

• And, you know, apropos of the podcast conversation, it was conversation.

• So, apropos, we leave you today with the words of Philip K Dick.

• I have a question apropos from a question prior about this Excel spreadsheet and algebra.

  Stanford

• And apropos sunglasses, Andrew McMahon said the whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common.

  TimeGhost History

• They've decided apropos of nothing, that Jesus Christ himself needs to be featured on these Starbucks cups.

• If you look at the menu again, for for these women who are listening apropos of your thing, they're all kind of charming individualities.

  Lex Fridman

• Apropos of our earlier discussion about travel, I found a great deal on flights.

• Apropos of your interests in art, there's a new gallery opening downtown this weekend.

Synonyms

B

by the way

vsapropos

• Informal

448 1.5

To introduce a new topic that is not directly related

also applies when the new point is directly relevant, not only tangential

I

incidentally

vsapropos

159 4.8

To add extra information not directly related

also covers introducing new points that may be relevant as well

B

by the bye

vsapropos

• Archaic

1 9.0

To say something extra that is not about the main topic

includes new topics that are relevant as well as incidental

C

come to mention it

vsapropos

• UK

1 7.1

Saying this shows you have just remembered something related

is used more broadly to introduce new or incidental information without memory cue

How Relevant

relevant

592 3.3

apropos

• Formal

8.1

tangential

7 8.1

irrelevant

355 3.6

Surface Forms

Etymology