aptly
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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"
- 1890, Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives Chapter XIII
- 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 standpoint.
Translations[edit]
in an apt or suitable manner
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References[edit]
- aptly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913