pertinent
adjEtymology Inherited from Middle English pertinent, borrowed from Old French pertinent and Latin pertinēns, pertinentem.
1
Important with regard to (a subject or matter); pertaining; relevant.
- Fourthly, I have made an effort to call the attention of the reader to the pertinent literature.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
- Synonyms
- applicable, apposite, apt, well-placed, felicitous, germane, in point, material, on point, on-topic, pertinent, relevant, salient, to the point, valid
- Antonyms
- irrelevant
- Derived terms
- pertinently, pertinentness
- Related terms
- impertinent, pertain, pertinence, pertinency, unpertinent, pertinently, requisite, suitable
- Hypernyms
- connected