apropos

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WOTD - 9 September 2008    
See also à propos, and àpropos

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French à propos (“‘by the way’”)

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apropos (comparative more apropos, superlative most apropos)

Positive
apropos

Comparative
more apropos

Superlative
most apropos
  1. Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.

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of an appropriate or pertinent nature

[edit] Preposition

apropos

  1. Regarding or concerning.
    Apropos the return home of the body of old King Nicholas of Montenegro ('Communists allow burial of Montenegro's last king', 2 October): King Alexander of Yugoslavia was his grandson, not his son-in-law.

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regarding or concerning

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apropos

  1. “By the way”.
  2. timely, at a good time.

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by the way
timely, at a good time
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[edit] Quotations

Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. “No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin,” he observed. “Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.”
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in A Study in Scarlet

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From French à propos

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apropos

  1. apropos
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