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apt

UK/æpt/

apt adjective: suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited. Also the abbreviation of apartment.

Adjective

apt (comparative apter or more apt, superlative aptest or most apt)

  1. Suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
    • an apt metaphor
    • apt punishment
  2. Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; disposed towards.
    • This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.1874, John Lubbock, Scientific Lectures / On Plants and Insects
    • that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers1886, Frederic Harrison, The Choice of Books
    Synonyms:
    disposed, inclined, liable, predisposed, tending towards, bain, fain, forward, minded, ready
  3. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn.
    • a pupil apt to learn
    • an apt scholar

Noun capitalized: APT

APT (plural APTs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of automation presses tooling.
  2. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of advanced passenger train.
  3. (US, abbreviation) Abbreviation of apartment, preferred by the United States Postal Service; compare Apt. and apt..
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of advanced persistent threat.
    • The FBI has linked the incident to a North Korean APT it tracks as TraderTraitor, which the agency has been monitoring since 2022 for its attacks on blockchain companies.2025 March 6, Ryan Naraine, “How Social Engineering Sparked a Billion-Dollar Supply Chain Cryptocurrency Heist”, in SecurityWeek
  5. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of arbitrage pricing theory.
  6. (UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of anatomical pathology technologist.
  7. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of acyl protein thioesterase.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: APT

APT

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of automatically programmed tool: a high-level language for numerically controlled machine tools.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of advanced packaging tool: a package management system used by Debian and Debian-based distributions, also used by other Linux distributions.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Alabama Public Television.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of American Public Television.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Apt

Apt (plural Apts)

  1. A surname from German or Yiddish.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Apt

Apt

  1. A commune of Vaucluse department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
    • While the work of the contemporary artists in the show is avant-garde, it does not overwhelm the colorful faience made by the Faucon family, seven generations of ceramicists who operated a factory in Apt, a town in the Luberon Valley, from 1890 until 2002.2009 January 30, Wendy Moonan, “An Old-School Collector With Ideas on Beauty”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022

Also used as

apt is also the abbreviation of apartment.

apt meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Punjabi

apt in Hindi

ए. पी. टी

apt in Urdu

اے پی ٹی

apt in Bengali

এ. পি. টি

apt in Punjabi

ਐੱਪੀਟੀ
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apt in Gujarati
એ. પી. ટી, એપ્ટ, એપ્ટી
apt in Nepali
एप्टी
apt in Arabic
مناسب munāsib
apt in Thai
เหมาะเจาะ mɔ̀-jɔ̀, เหมาะสม mɔ̀-sǒm

Examples of apt in a sentence

  • While we to Jove the pure libations pay, / Than Jove what apter claims the hallow'd lay?1755, Callimachus, “The First Hymn of Callimachus. To Jupiter.”, in William Dodd, transl., The Hymns of Callimachus, […], London: […] The...
  • Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:
  • That vagueness is especially problematic in this context, Shubb said, because it is apt to have a chilling effect on speech protected by the First Amendment.2023 January 26, Jacob Sullum, “A Federal Judge Blocks California's Ban on Medical Advice That Promotes COVID-19 'Misinformation'”, in...
  • Live a thousand years, / I shall not find myself so apt to die.1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies...

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Synonyms of apt

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Forms of apt

Adjective
comparativeapter
comparativemore apt
superlativeaptest
superlativemost apt
Noun
pluralapts
alternative formapt.
pluralAPTs
Proper noun
pluralApts

Origin of apt

From Old French apte, from Latin aptus (“suitable, fitting”). Either from obsolete apere (“to fasten, to join, to fit”), akin to apisci (“to reach, attain”) (compare with Greek ἅπτειν (áptein, “to fasten”) and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta, “fit”), from आप् (āp, “to reach, attain”)) or from *h₂ep- (“to join, fit (in)”).

Two possible origins: * A variant of Abt, a surname of German origin. * Borrowed from Yiddish אַפּט (apt), a habitational surname from the town of Opatów, in Poland.

Borrowed from French Apt.

Words formed from apt

Words that rhyme with apt

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Questions about apt

What does apt mean?
Apt means suitable; appropriate; fit or fitted; suited.
What is apt in Hindi?
Apt in Hindi is ए. पी. टी. See Apt meaning in Hindi.
How do you use apt in a sentence?
While we to Jove the pure libations pay, / Than Jove what apter claims the hallow'd lay?
What part of speech is apt?
Apt can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce apt?
Apt is pronounced /æpt/ (UK).

Words near apt in the dictionary

  1. apstatin
  2. Apsu
  3. APSW
  4. Apsyrtus
  5. Apsáalooke
  6. apt
  7. apt.
  8. APTA
  9. aptagram
  10. aptagrams
  11. aptahistochemistry

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apt (page history and authors); APT (page history and authors); Apt (page history and authors); apt (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); apt (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); apt (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); apt (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); apt (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); apt (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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