apter

comparative form of apt: more apt

Adjective

  1. comparative form of apt: more apt
    • Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. - c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William...
    • [I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot; and if your worship should provide for the child, it may make the people the apter to believe […] - 1749, Henry Fielding, The...
    • Would you deign to be my instructress, I should prove an apter scholar than if taught by Signor Rappaccini himself. - 1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter: