Difference between Applicable and Relevant

What is the difference between Applicable and Relevant?

Applicable as an adjective is suitable for application; relevant, appropriate while Relevant as an adjective is directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.

Applicable

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: suitable for application; relevant, appropriate

Example sentence: It's no longer possible to simply build English country houses out of words, because they've already been so thoroughly described that all the applicable words have been used up, and one is forced to build them instead out of words recycled and scavenged from other descriptions of other country houses.

Relevant

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Directly related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.Not out of date; current.

Example sentence: Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

We hope you now know whether to use Applicable or Relevant in your sentence.

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