aptly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈæp(t).li/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: happily (in some h-dropping accents)
Adverb
[edit]aptly (comparative more aptly, superlative most aptly)
- In an apt or suitable manner; fittingly; appropriately; suitably
- an aptly named hotel
- My friend, aptly nicknamed “Shorty”, was small but strong.
- 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:
- The border-land where the white and black races meet in common debauch, the aptly-named black-and-tan saloon, has never been debatable ground from a moral stand-point.
- 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:
- The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.
- 2026 March 5, Michael West, “Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster”, in Asia Pacific Report[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2026:
- This was a war of choice. Even without the “Epstein Coalition” — as the Iranian media so aptly dubs their invaders — murdering 165 Iranian school girls on day one, “peace through strength” was never going to happen.
Translations
[edit]in an apt or suitable manner
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References
[edit]- “aptly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.