aproposとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• à propos
• àpropos

語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/
• 韻: -əʊ

形容詞

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.

   • 1974 February 9, “Tufts Porno”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 33, page 2:

     A particularly apropos line many will remember from this film was the closing shot of a Times editorial reading "Is There No Sense of Decency?"

   • 2008 December, Anne Valdespino, “Mr. Stox”, in Orange Coast, volume 34, number 12, →ISSN, page 139:

     Served outside the shell and sliced in bite-sized pieces, it's as apropos for a first date as a business dinner.

2. By the way, incidental.
   • 1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter II (The Science of Deduction), page 14:

     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 was by no means such a phenomenon as [Edgar Allan] Poe appeared to imagine."

同意語

• (by the way): by the way, incidentally, incidental

派生語

前置詞

apropos

1. Regarding, concerning, in regard to, on the subject of:
   • 2011, Jeremy Harding, “Diary”, in 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).

同意語

• about, as for; See also Thesaurus:about

反意語

• malapropos

派生語

• apropos of
• apropos of nothing

副詞

apropos

1. By the way.
2. Timely; at a good time.
3. To the purpose; appropriately.

名詞

apropos (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Fittingness, pertinence.

アナグラム

• Sapporo