apropos

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv. 介词 prep.
中文释义
英 /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/    美 /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fittingness, pertinence. obsolete,uncountable
形容词 adj.
  1. Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
    — Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos.
  2. By the way, incidental.
    — Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to [C. Auguste] 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 [Edgar Allan] Poe appeared to imagine."
副词 adv.
  1. By the way.
  2. Timely; at a good time.
  3. To the purpose; appropriately.
介词 prep.
  1. Regarding, concerning, in regard to, on the subject of.
    — "Go on, Uncle Max," said Nora pleasantly. "I like to watch your exceptional mind at work. Apropos the disappearance of Geoffrey, and that big old lonely house, you were saying—?"

词形变化

more apropos comparative most apropos superlative à propos alternative àpropos alternative à propos alternative àpropos alternative à propos alternative àpropos alternative à propos alternative àpropos alternative

词汇关系

反义词
malapropos
衍生词
apronym unapropos

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
词源 2
Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
词源 3
Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
词源 4
Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”).
Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.
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