different between adaptable vs apropos

English

Etymology

adapt +? -able

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??dæpt?b?l/

Adjective

adaptable (comparative more adaptable, superlative most adaptable)

1. Capable of adapting or of being adapted.

   Antonyms: unadaptable, inadaptable

Synonyms

• adaptive

Derived terms

• adaptability
• adaptableness
• adaptably
• inadaptable
• maladaptable
• unadaptable

Related terms

• adapt

Translations

References

• adaptable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Catalan

Etymology

adaptar +? -able

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?.d?p?ta.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.dap?ta.ble/

Adjective

adaptable (masculine and feminine plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

Derived terms

• adaptabilitat

Further reading

• “adaptable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From adapter +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.dap.tabl/

Adjective

adaptable (plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

Derived terms

• adaptabilité

Further reading

• “adaptable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• adaptábel

Etymology

From adaptar +? -able.

Adjective

adaptable m or f (plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonyms: inadaptable, inadaptábel

Derived terms

• adabtabilidade

Further reading

• “adaptable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Scots

Etymology

adapt +? -able

Adjective

adaptable (comparative mair adaptable, superlative maist adaptable)

1. adaptable

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Spanish

Etymology

From adaptar +? -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adab?table/, [a.ð?a???t?a.??le]

Adjective

adaptable (plural adaptables)

1. adaptable (capable of adapting or being adapted)

   Antonym: inadaptable

Derived terms

• adaptabilidad

Further reading

• “adaptable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• à propos
• àpropos

Etymology

Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æp.???p??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æp.???po?/
• Rhymes: -??

Adjective

apropos (comparative more apropos, superlative most apropos)

1. Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
   • 1877, Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, Journey into the Interior of the Earth, Chapter VI,

     Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos.
2. by the way, incidental
   • 1877, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

     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."

Synonyms

• (by the way): by the way, incidentally, incidental

Translations

Preposition

apropos

1. Regarding or concerning.
   • 2011, Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books, 33.VII:

     Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).

Synonyms

• about, as for; See also Thesaurus:about

Antonyms

• malapropos

Derived terms

• apropos of
• apropos of nothing

Translations

Adverb

apropos

1. By the way.
2. Timely; at a good time.
3. To the purpose; appropriately.

Translations

Anagrams

• Sapporo

Danish

Alternative forms

• (nonstandard) à propos

Etymology

Borrowed from French à propos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apropo/, [ap???op?o], [?p???op?o]

Noun

apropos n (singular definite aproposet or apropos'et, plural indefinite aproposer or apropos'er)

1. aside

Inflection

Preposition

apropos

1. apropos (regarding or concerning)

Adverb

apropos

1. apropos

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French à propos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ap?o?po?]

Adverb

apropos

1. apropos

Synonyms

• nebenbei
• übrigens

Further reading

• “apropos” in Duden online