apt
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3.2
- adjective
- /æpt/
:
propenso a
- Their idea of top dollar is apt to be far more generous than yours.
- more apt to
- less apt to
- apt to occur
When I have things in rows, I'm much more apt to cut things instead of leaving them.
- When I have things in rows, I'm much more apt to cut things instead of leaving them.
- Maybe there is a healing, a processing that needs to happen in the new life and therefore they're more apt to remember a traumatic death.
- So they were more apt to be the ones with the written.
- When you have all of that cumulative disadvantage around you have that makes crime and violence much more apt to happen, right?
- Then I think you're you're much more apt to have corruption then in a system with just a smaller sphere for the state.
Examples
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She is apt to forget where she puts her keys if she is distracted.
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The students of more punitive and disapproving teachers are less apt to comply with their demands.
Academic text (1994) -
Either sense of self is apt to give way to the other.
Academic text (1990) -
Well, you know, these things are apt to go off at a moment's notice.
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My sister is apt to be very enthusiastic.
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Lundberg says they may therefore be more apt to strike out against themselves in a variety of ways.
Academic text (1991) -
Don't laugh until you try it; you are apt to get excited.
Fiction book (1997) -
Any one of these types of crises was apt to trigger another.
Academic text (2011) -
Second, professional school counselor functioning is apt to vary considerably from one school context to another.
Academic text (2008) -
Through an organized community resource program, however, teachers are more apt to utilize resources within the community.
Academic text (1991)
Synonyms
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1.0
People expect it to happen or be true
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4.9
Willing to do something
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4.0
Likely to get sick or to forget things
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5.0
Likely to experience something unpleasant
Willing or likely to do something
Likely to do a certain thing often, like daydream
Antonyms
How Likely
Surface Forms
Etymology
Apt also comes from Latin aptus 'fit' and carries the idea of being 'ready' or 'fit' to do something. So if someone is apt to forget, they are 'likely' or ready to forget in that situation.