aptly

English

Etymology

From apt +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæp(t).li/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: happily (in some h-dropping accents)

Adverb

aptly (comparative more aptly, superlative most aptly)

1. In an apt or suitable manner; fittingly; appropriately; suitably

   an aptly named hotel

   My friend, aptly nicknamed “Shorty”, was small but strong.

   • 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:

     The border-land where the white and black races meet in common debauch, the aptly-named black-and-tan saloon, has never been debatable ground from a moral stand-point.

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:

     The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.

Translations

in an apt or suitable manner

Catalan: aptament (ca), encertadament (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 适当地 Finnish: osuvasti (fi) Italian: giustamente (it), adeguatamente (it), appropriatamente (it) Latin: aptē Occitan: aptament Polish: odpowiednio (pl), trafnie (pl) Portuguese: aptamente Romanian: în mod just, pe drept Russian: удачно (ru) (udačno) Serbo-Croatian: prikladno (sh), shodno (sh), zgodno (sh) Slovak: vhodne, príhodne, trefne, pohotovo Spanish: acertadamente (es), aptamente (es) Ukrainian: удачно (udačno), влучно (vlučno)

References

• “aptly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• patly, platy, platy-, typal