apropos

apropos

apropos n. (singular definite aproposet or aproposet, plural indefinite aproposer or aproposer)

1. aside

apropos (comparative more apropos, superlative most apropos)

1. Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
   • 1877, Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, 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.

2. 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 hours 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.""

apropos

1. By the way.
2. Timely; at a good time.

apropos

1. 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).

a proposito

a proposito di

adatto

appropriato

Altri significati:

Alternative form of apropos.

Traduzione 'veloce'

a proposito ,a proposito di ,adatto ,appropriato