Definitions for aptitudes

aptitudes ap·ti·tude

Spelling: [ap-ti-tood, -tyood]
IPA: /ˈæp tɪˌtud, -ˌtyud/

Aptitudes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 468 anagrams from letters in aptitudes (adeipsttu).

Definitions for aptitudes

noun

  1. capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent:
  2. readiness or quickness in learning; intelligence:
  3. the state or quality of being apt; special fitness.

Origin of aptitudes

1400-50; late Middle English (Middle French) Late Latin aptitūdō. See apt, -i-, -tude

Examples for aptitudes

He appeared to have no aptitude at all for the business of soap making.

“The girls we teach have the aptitude, and they can get a job right out of high school,” she says.

It is doubtful if the Phoenicians possessed any aptitude for the arts.

Others say Wong is smart, and has an aptitude for understanding foreign policy.

He had seized a sword from a dying hand and was wielding it with aptitude and power.

It substitutes an aptitude for what ought to be pure acquirement.

According to the aptitude Chronology report, she was also diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

So the KGB assembled a group of young women with an aptitude for languages.

When Piloti became old enough he was taught the piano, for which he had aptitude.

But that won't do for the folks without the aptitude to enter the new high-skilled fields.

Word Value for aptitudes
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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