different between inapposite vs appose

English

Etymology

in- +? apposite

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?æp?z?t/

Adjective

inapposite (comparative more inapposite, superlative most inapposite)

1. inappropriate, not suitable for the situation
   • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

     This remark, so ludicrously inapposite to, or rather, incongruous with, the purpose, for which I was known to have visited Birmingham, ... produced an involuntary and general burst of laughter;

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p??z/
• Homophone: oppose

Etymology 1

Variant form of oppose.

Verb

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To interrogate; to question.
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:

     I shal assaye hir my-self · and sothelich appose / What man of þis worlde · þat hire were leueste.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.9:

     Then gan Authority her to appose / With peremptorie powre […].

Etymology 2

Coined based on Latin app?n?, by analogy with compose, suppose etc.

Verb

appose (third-person singular simple present apposes, present participle apposing, simple past and past participle apposed)

1. (transitive) To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose.
2. (transitive) To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another).

Related terms

• apposite
• apposition
• inapposite

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: apposent, apposes

Verb

appose

1. first-person singular present indicative of apposer
2. third-person singular present indicative of apposer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of apposer
5. second-person singular imperative of apposer

Italian

Verb

appose

1. third-person singular past historic of apporre

Anagrams

• appeso