Inapposite: alternatives and connections

Fit; adapted; suitable.

The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability.

To render fit, suitable, or correspondent; to adapt; to conform; as, to accommodate ourselves to circumstances.

To grant as suitable or proper; to concede; to award; as, to accord to one due praise.

To make suitable; to fit, or suit; to adjust; to alter so as to fit for a new use; -- sometimes followed by to or for.

In a suitable manner.

To adapt; to make suitable; to fit.

To apply, as medicine or a remedy; to give, as a dose or something beneficial or suitable. Extended to a blow, a reproof, etc.

Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.

The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency.

severe and progressive depression in infants who lose their mother and do not get a suitable substitute

A place suitable for anchoring or where ships anchor; a hold for an anchor.

Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it.

Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consid…

Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat; -- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.

Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.

Suitable or suited; adapted; accordant.