Enter your text to find synonyms and click Synonyms Search
Search Results
aptness 90 results
Synonyms:
- desirability, bent, way, instinct, disposition, tendency, knack, fittingness, ability, liability, felicity, course, proneness, expedience, advantageousness, plausibility, predilection, rightness, penchant, affinity, bias, leaning, propensity, appositeness, convenience, predisposition, trend, faculty, appropriateness, felicitousness, happiness, possibility, approach, likelihood, grain, fitness, seemliness, suitableness, inclination, propriety, probability, well-timedness, properness, head, flair, aptitude, tenor, direction, timeliness, chance, efficiency, polarity, gift, talent, temperament, proclivity, effectiveness, suitability, genius, opportunity, turn
Examples:
- - 584. 85 Dr. Whewell, in his reply, expresses a very unfavourable opinion of the utility of the Four Methods, as well as of the aptness of the examples by which I have attempted to illustrate them. - "A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)", John Stuart Mill
- - The aptness of these words, spoken in a dogmatic tone, aroused the approval of the Arabs, and the Jew could not restrain himself from exclaiming: " Capital!" - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers
- - It was for herself that he loved Tess; her soul, her heart, her substance- not for her skill in the dairy, her aptness as his scholar, and certainly not for her simple formal faith- professions. - "Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman", Thomas Hardy
Antonyms:
- unseemliness, pointlessness, immateriality, wrongness, incongruence, meaninglessness, irrelevancy, incongruousness, inharmoniousness, inappropriateness, incongruity, unfitness, inappositeness, incompatibility, inaptness, irrelevance, inapplicability, indisposition, inexpedience, unbecomingness, infelicity, unsuitability, averseness, disinclination, dislike, disagreeableness, improperness, inexpediency, impropriety
