Definition/Meaning of apropos

• English - Adjective: apropos ( comparative more apropos , superlative most apropos ) 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 . by the way , incidental . 1877 , Arthur Conan…
• English - Preposition: apropos Regarding or concerning . 2011 , Jeremy Harding , "Diary", 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). Antonyms malapropos Derived terms apropos of apropos of nothing Translations
• English - Adverb: apropos By the way . Timely; at a good time . Translations
• English - Etymology: Borrowing from French