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Meanings of apropos in English

Portuguese
a propósito
Spanish
de paso

Introducing a different topic; in point of fact.

        a propósito
        Catalan
        oportú
        Spanish
        oportuno

        Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.

              Related terms
              oportú

              At an opportune time.

                    Usage of apropos in English
                    1
                    After an unusually long silence FitzGerald exclaimed, apropos of nothing in particular:
                    The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
                    2
                    Because someone should tell them they're definitely wrong. Completely apropos of nothing.
                    The Guardian
                    3
                    I laughed at your idea of quality receipts, it came so apropos.
                    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3
                    4
                    I have spoken of it already, apropos of the transitoriness of instincts.
                    Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life...
                    5
                    Someone, I know not who, wrote this apropos of prisons in Greenwich:
                    Greenwich Village
                    6
                    On some level, he stands as a very apropos figurehead for Potentialism.
                    The South African
                    7
                    It was apropos of nothing, and there was nothing else to say.
                    The story of edgar sawtelle
                    8
                    Clemens had written Bigelow, apropos of some adverse expression on the tariff:
                    Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910
                    9
                    David H. Wallace remarked Mr. Carroll is most apropos in his choice.
                    The new yorker
                    10
                    Extremely gallant remark, except for the fact that it is not apropos.
                    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
                    11
                    And your quotation is uncommonly apropos and all that sort of thing.
                    Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
                    12
                    At last, and it had to be apropos of nothing, she said:
                    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 / Devoted ...
                    13
                    Then he said abruptly, and apropos of nothing that had gone before:
                    Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
                    14
                    This book offers synonyms that are apropos and definite rather than comprehensive.
                    The Century Vocabulary Builder
                    15
                    You spoke of formality just now, apropos of the inquiry, you know.
                    Crime and Punishment
                    16
                    This resource never came more apropos, nor was it ever so fertile.
                    The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 09
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                    Translations for apropos
                    Catalan
                    oportú
                    Apropos through the time
                    Apropos across language varieties
                    United Kingdom
                    Common
                    United States of America
                    Less common