apposite

Anglais modifier

Étymologie modifier

Du latin appositus, participe passé de adponere, composé de ad- et de ponere (« mettre, placer »).

Adjectif modifier

Nature	Forme
Positif	apposite
Comparatif	more apposite
Superlatif	most apposite

apposite

Adéquat, pertinent, bien adapté.
- Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation; […] . — (Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol, dans Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2/3, c.1833-1856)
- 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. — (Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, livre 1, chapitre 23 : Machinery in Motion, 1857)
- Rough-neck is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English navvy, and it is over-whelmingly more American. — (H. L. Mencken, The American Language: An inquiry into the development of English in the United States, chapitre 15 : The Expanding Vocabulary, 1919)
En apposition.
- In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives. — (University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 34, page 262, 1971)
Connexe, homologue.
- 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. — (David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles, in Pericles: Critical Essays, 2000)

Nom commun modifier

Singulier	Pluriel
apposite \Prononciation ?\	apposites \Prononciation ?\

apposite

(Rare) Ce qui est convenable.
- Hugh gave the boy apples or other small apposites […] , but the child was too interested in the bishop to notice the gifts. — (Charles L. Marson, Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, 1901)