aptly

From apt + -ly.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæp(t).li/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Homophone: happily (in some h-dropping accents)

aptly (comparative more aptly, superlative most aptly)

1. In an apt or suitable manner; fittingly; appropriately; suitably

   an aptly named hotel

   My friend, aptly nicknamed “Shorty”, was small but strong.

   • 1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Color Line in New York”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 156:

     The border-land where the white and black races meet in common debauch, the aptly-named black-and-tan saloon, has never been debatable ground from a moral stand-point.

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 247:

     The Noisy Scrub-bird is aptly named because its main call of several sweet notes is ear-piercingly loud.

   • 2026 March 5, Michael West, “Australia and the ‘Epstein Coalition’ – invasion of Iran a disaster”, in Asia Pacific Report‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 March 2026:

     This was a war of choice. Even without the “Epstein Coalition” — as the Iranian media so aptly dubs their invaders — murdering 165 Iranian school girls on day one, “peace through strength” was never going to happen.

• “aptly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• patly, platy, platy-, typal