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.