aptly

adverb

apt·​ly ˈap(t)-lē 

: in an apt manner : in a way that is fitting or appropriate

… at the edge of the vast desert aptly named the Empty Quarter …

—Geraldine Brooks

All her albums have famously been autobiographical, and her latest, the aptly titled Speak Now, is filled with emotionally charged songs she wrote about the past two years of her life …

—Joey Bartolomeo

Paganism in Rome fell victim not to intolerance but to the "institutionalized egotism" (to use a phrase aptly applied to the absolutist monarchy of Louis XIV) that was a central feature of the late Roman imperial system.

—Peter Brown

Examples of aptly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The aptly named Powder Highway connects eight Canadian ski areas, each with its own superlatives and charms, all set in the Kootenay Rockies. —Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2026

The film is aptly titled Lee Cronin's The Mummy, and will star Jack Reynor and Laia Costa. —Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Feb. 2026

Fresh off a trek with the B-52’s late last year, the band announced a West Coast run aptly titled the Mutate, Don’t Stagnate tour, and has now filled out its 2026 schedule with a batch of June dates in Eastern North America. —Alex Suskind, Pitchfork, 10 Feb. 2026

Horses brought the firefighting apparatus and a big steed, aptly named Goliath, sensed the danger and ran out of the way, not before being injured. —Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1523, in the meaning defined above