Usually means: Appropriate or relevant to situation.
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  1. apropos: Merriam-Webster
  2. apropos: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apropos: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apropos: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apropos: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apropos, apropos: Wordnik
  7. apropos: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apropos: Wiktionary
  9. apropos: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apropos: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apropos: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. apropos: Dictionary.com
  13. apropos: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Apropos (Unix), Apropos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. apropos: Rhymezone
  16. apropos: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. apropos: FreeDictionary.org
  18. apropos: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. apropos: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. apropos: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  21. apropos: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. apropos: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apropos: Legal dictionary

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  1. APROPOS: Acronym Finder

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  1. apropos: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
adjective:  By the way, incidental.
adverb:  By the way.
adverb:  Timely; at a good time.
adverb:  To the purpose; appropriately.
noun:  (obsolete) Fittingness, pertinence.

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