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Showing words for APTNESS using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Aptness

aptness, patness, pesants

6 Letter Words for Aptness

aspens, assent, passen, pastes, patens, pesant, sanest, septan, snaste, sneaps, spanes, spates, speans, speats, stanes, stapes, steans, tensas

5 Letter Words for Aptness

antes, apses, aspen, asset, easts, enapt, etnas, napes, nates, neaps, neats, nests, panes, panse, pants, pases, passe, paste, pasts, paten, pates, peans, peats, penta, pents, pests, petas, sanes, sants, sates, seans, seats, senas, sensa, sents, septa, septs, snape, snaps, snast, sneap, spaes, spane, spans, spate, spats, spean, speat, spent, spets, stane, staps, stean, stens, steps, tapen, tapes, tasse, tepas

4 Letter Words for Aptness

anes, anet, ante, ants, apes, apse, apts, asps, asse, assn, asst, ates, eans, east, eats, ests, etas, etna, nape, naps, nast, nats, neap, neat, nepa, neps, ness, nest, nets, pane, pans, pant, pase, pass, past, pate, pats, pean, peas, peat, pens, pent, pesa, pess, pest, peta, pets, psst, psts, sane, sans, sant, saps, sate, sean, seas, seat, sena, sens, sent, sepn, seps, sept, seta, sets, snap, spae, span, spas, spat, spet, stap, sten, step, taen, tane, tans, tape, taps, tass, tean, teap, teas, tens, tepa

3 Letter Words for Aptness

aes, ane, ans, ant, ape, apt, ase, asp, ass, ast, ate, atp, ean, eas, eat, ens, epa, esp, ess, est, eta, nae, nap, nas, nat, nea, nep, net, pan, pas, pat, pea, pen, pes, pet, pst, pta, pte, pts, san, sap, sat, sea, sen, sep, set, spa, sps, spt, sse, ssp, sta, tan, tap, tas, tea, ten, tes, tps, tsp, tss

Definitions for Aptness

[1] inclined; disposed; given; prone: too apt to slander others.
[2] likely: Am I apt to find him at home?
[3] unusually intelligent; able to learn quickly and easily: an apt pupil.
[4] suited to the purpose or occasion; appropriate: an apt metaphor; a few apt remarks on world peace.
[5] Archaic . prepared; ready; willing.
[6] suitable for the circumstance or purpose; appropriate
[7] (postpositive; foll by an infinitive ) having a tendency (to behave as specified)
[8] having the ability to learn and understand easily; clever (esp in the phrase an apt pupil )

Words related to Aptness

aptcapacity, gift, genius, proficiency, forte, expertise, aptitude, faculty, instinct, smarts, knack, flair, docility, suitability, fitness

Words nearby Aptness

aptapsidal motion, apsidiole, apsis, apsu, apsyrtus, apt, apt., apteral, apterium, apterous, apterygial

Origin of Aptness

1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin aptus fastened, fitted, fitting, appropriate, equivalent to ap- fasten, attach + -tus past participle suffix

Words that may be confused with Aptness

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, aptapt, likely, (see, usage, note, at, likely)

Other words from Aptness

apt·ly , adverb
apt·ness , noun
o·ver·apt , adjective
o·ver·apt·ly , adverb
o·ver·apt·ness , noun

Word origin for Aptness

C14: from Latin aptus fitting, suitable, from apere to fasten

Synonyms for Aptness

aptitude, capacity, docility, expertise, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, instinct, knack, proficiency, smarts