pertinent
directly related to the subject
TRANSLATION
pertinent = relevant, entsprechend --- GOOGLE INDEX pertinent: approximately 53,000,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Splash screens can be a useful tool to remind users of PERTINENT details around an application.
(Forbes magazine)
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a PERTINENT answer.
(Jacob Bronowski, British mathematician and scientist)
(Forbes magazine)
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a PERTINENT answer.
(Jacob Bronowski, British mathematician and scientist)
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pertinent
adjective
- relating directly to the subject being considered
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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The term pertinent describes something that is appropriate or suitable to a particular topic or situation. If you talk about a business trip to a company subsidiary in China during a meeting at work for instance, then that's pertinent. If during the same meeting you get the urge to tell everyone how much money you made at your weekly poker game, that's hardly pertinent.
If you include information in your weekly sales report about developments in the Chinese economy, that's probably pertinent. On the other hand if you throw in some statistics like how long it took to build the Great Wall of China, if you're lucky your colleagues will simply tell you that this information, while interesting, is not pertinent. If you're not lucky, they will share your sales report with the rest of the company.
So is the opposite of pertinent "impertinent?" Those with some knowledge of Latin might presume this to be the case since the prefix "im" means not. In the 14th and 15th centuries when these two words first appeared, this would have been true, because impertinent meant "not to the point." However, the definition of impertinent eventually evolved to the modern sense of cheeky, impudent or impolite.
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SYNONYMS
applicable, appropriate, apropos, apt, fitting, germane, proper, relevant, to the point
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"You can expect a lot of pertinent questions during the job interview."
adjective
- relating directly to the subject being considered
(Cambridge Dictionary)
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The term pertinent describes something that is appropriate or suitable to a particular topic or situation. If you talk about a business trip to a company subsidiary in China during a meeting at work for instance, then that's pertinent. If during the same meeting you get the urge to tell everyone how much money you made at your weekly poker game, that's hardly pertinent.
If you include information in your weekly sales report about developments in the Chinese economy, that's probably pertinent. On the other hand if you throw in some statistics like how long it took to build the Great Wall of China, if you're lucky your colleagues will simply tell you that this information, while interesting, is not pertinent. If you're not lucky, they will share your sales report with the rest of the company.
So is the opposite of pertinent "impertinent?" Those with some knowledge of Latin might presume this to be the case since the prefix "im" means not. In the 14th and 15th centuries when these two words first appeared, this would have been true, because impertinent meant "not to the point." However, the definition of impertinent eventually evolved to the modern sense of cheeky, impudent or impolite.
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SYNONYMS
applicable, appropriate, apropos, apt, fitting, germane, proper, relevant, to the point
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"You can expect a lot of pertinent questions during the job interview."
