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Set in place enthralled by impressionist? That's fitting
Answer for the clue "Set in place enthralled by impressionist? That's fitting ", 8 letters:
apposite
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Word definitions for apposite in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Ms. Emerson made a few brief but apposite remarks about the incident. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adequate on-line and off-line information is essential for apposite decision-making. ▪ Areas where safeguards developed ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apposite \Ap"po*site\, a. [L. appositus, p. p. of apponere to set or put to; ad + ponere to put, place.] Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case. -- Ap"po*site*ly , ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: appropriate , apt , pertinent ]
Usage examples of apposite.
The overloaded appetite loathes even the honeycomb, and it is scarce a wonder that the knight, mortified and harassed with misfortunes and abasement, became something impatient of hearing his misery made, at every turn, the ground of proverbs and apothegms, however just and apposite.
The whole notice is so apposite to my purpose, and would be so interesting to every Manxman, that I would fain insert the whole bodily, did the Author and the limits of an Introduction permit.
Refreshed, I said hi to a few filmstars, briefly joining them at their tables with a selection of apposite one-liners.
A sunset was just what it might happen to symbolise to him at the time, and his judgments upon events and persons were striking, but they were frequently judgments upon creations of his own imagination, and were not in the least apposite to what was actually before him.
Peace, on which occasions a half column of trenchant English supported by an apposite classical quotation impressed Sir Willoughby with the value of such a secretary in a controversy.
He knew it was that room and no other by its pale violet hangings, silver fittings, and a half hundred more apposite details, chiefest perhaps two painted panels in the far wall depicting an unclad maiden and crocodile erotically intertwined and a youth and leopardess similarly entangled.
Quite a lot of the reason why this quip is considered so apposite is that it equates government with the conservation of momentum and the like.
As we tread our way carefully back along the ridge to the helicopter I ask Don what he feels the long term prospects for the kakapos really are, and his answer is surprisingly apposite.
What I mean is, that highly celebrated talent among the modern wits, of deducing similitudes, allusions, and applications, very surprising, agreeable, and apposite, from the pudenda of either sex, together with their proper uses.