Apt /(ăpt)/

Apt

a.
  1. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
    They have always apt instruments.
    A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb.
  2. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
    My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit.
    — Temple.
    This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.
    — Lubbock.
  3. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
    Apter to give than thou wit be to ask.
    That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers.
    — F. Harrison.
  4. Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
    Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die.
    I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear.

Apt

v. t.
  1. To fit; to suit; to adapt. [Obs.]
    That our speech be apted to edification.