apropos
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊ
AdjectiveEdit
apropos (comparative more apropos, superlative most apropos)
- Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
- 1877, Jules Verne, Frederick Amadeus Malleson, transl., 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.
- 2008 December, Anne Valdespino, “Mr. Stox”, in Orange Coast, volume 34, number 12, →ISSN, page 139:
- Served outside the shell and sliced in bite-sized pieces, it's as apropos for a first date as a business dinner.
- 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."
SynonymsEdit
- (by the way): by the way, incidentally, incidental
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
of an appropriate or pertinent nature
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PrepositionEdit
apropos
- 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).
- 2011, Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books, 33.VII:
SynonymsEdit
- about, as for; See also Thesaurus:about
AntonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
regarding or concerning
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AdverbEdit
apropos
- By the way.
- Timely; at a good time.
- To the purpose; appropriately.
TranslationsEdit
by the way
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timely, at a good time
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- (nonstandard) à propos
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French à propos.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
apropos n (singular definite aproposet or apropos'et, plural indefinite aproposer or apropos'er)
InflectionEdit
Declension of apropos
| neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | apropos | aproposet apropos'et |
aproposer apropos'er |
aproposerne apropos'erne |
| genitive | apropos' | aproposets apropos'ets |
aproposers apropos'ers |
aproposernes apropos'ernes |
PrepositionEdit
apropos
- apropos (regarding or concerning)
AdverbEdit
apropos
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French à propos.
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
apropos
- speaking of, apropos
- Synonyms: übrigens, nebenbei, bei der Gelegenheit, da wir gerade davon sprechen
- Apropos, Spanien: Wir fliegen ja nächsten Monat nach Madrid.
- Speaking of Spain, you know we’re flying to Madrid next month.