apropos means of an appropriate or pertinent nature. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.
apropos is pronounced /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/.
Etymology
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.
adj
- 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.”
- 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”
adv
- By the way.
- Timely; at a good time.
- To the purpose; appropriately.
noun
- Fittingness, pertinence.
prep
- 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—?"”