Thesaurus:pertinent
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Sense: important and suitable to the topic at hand[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- applicable
- apposite
- apt
- felicitous
- germane
- in point
- material [⇒ thesaurus] (legal)
- on point
- on-topic
- pertinent
- relevant
- salient
- to the point (idiomatic)
Antonyms[edit]
Hypernyms[edit]
See also[edit]
- Thesaurus:pertain (verb)
- Thesaurus:pertinently (adverb)
- Thesaurus:requisite
- Thesaurus:suitable
Further reading[edit]
- “9. relation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “pertinent” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.