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relevant
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin relev?ns, relev?ntem, present active participle of relev? (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + lev? (“lift”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???l?v?nt/
Adjective
relevant (comparative more relevant, superlative most relevant)
- Directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.
- His mother provided some relevant background information concerning his medical condition.
- Not out of date; current.
Synonyms
- (directly related to a topic): applicable, germane, in point (legal), pertinent, salient; See also Thesaurus:pertinent
- (not out of date): current, prevailing, prevalent, rife, up-to-date
Antonyms
- irrelevant
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Further reading
- relevant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- relevant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- levanter
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin relevans, present active participle of relev? (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + lev? (“lift”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
relevant (comparative relevanter, superlative relevantst)
- relevant
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: relevan
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.l(?).v??/
Verb
relevant
- present participle of relever
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ant
Adjective
relevant (comparative relevanter, superlative am relevantesten)
- relevant
Declension
Synonyms
- bedeutend, maßgeblich
Antonyms
- irrelevant, unbedeutend, unmaßgeblich
Further reading
- “relevant” in Duden online
Latin
Verb
relevant
- third-person plural present active indicative of relev?
Norwegian Bokmål
Adjective
relevant (neuter singular relevant, definite singular and plural relevante)
- relevant
Antonyms
- irrelevant
Related terms
- relevans
References
- “relevant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adjective
relevant (neuter singular relevant, definite singular and plural relevante)
- relevant
Antonyms
- irrelevant
Related terms
- relevans
References
- “relevant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian
Etymology
From French relevant.
Adjective
relevant m or n (feminine singular relevant?, masculine plural relevan?i, feminine and neuter plural relevante)
- relevant
Declension
Swedish
Adjective
relevant (comparative mer relevant, superlative mest relevant)
- relevant
Declension
Antonyms
- irrelevant
Related terms
- relevans
relevant From the web:
- what relevant means
- what relevant experience means
- what relevant coursework means
- what relevant work experience
- what relevant experience you have
- what relevant information is excluded from the text
- what relevant information is included from the text
- what relevant local policies are in place
appropriate
English
Etymology
From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/
Adjective
appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)
- Suitable or fit; proper.
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Synonyms
- (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable
Antonyms
- (all senses): inappropriate
Derived terms
- appropriateness
Related terms
- proper
- property
Translations
Verb
appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.
- 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
- Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
- (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
Translations
Further reading
- appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Adjective
appropriate f pl
- feminine plural of appropriato
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