appropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈpɾɔpɾɪeʈ/
enpr: əprō'priĭt
enpr: əprō'priət
ipa: /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.ɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.ət/
enpr: əprō'priĭt
enpr: əprō'priət
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ət/
ipa: /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
ipa: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈpɾɔpɾɪeʈ/
Forms: form: more appropriate
form: most appropriate
Etymology: From Middle English appropriat (“appropriated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: examples: text: The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
text: 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
in its strict and appropriate meaning
text: appropriate acts of divine worship
ref: 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome:
text: But some discussion of the complex relationship between “allohistory” and sf is appropriate here, as the genres overlap in certain ways. Classical allohistory— such as Trevelyan's "What if Napoleon had won the Battle of Waterloo?" and Churchill's "If Lee had not won the Battle of Gettysburg" —is a rigorously consistent thought-experiment in historical causality.
ref: 2011 February 1, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
glosses: Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
examples: text: I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.
text: While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
text: With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
ref: 2011 November 10, Jeremy Wilson, “England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report”, in Telegraph:
glosses: Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
glosses: Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
glosses: Morally good; positive.
raw_tags: of an action or thing
examples: text: Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.
glosses: pleasant;
raw_tags: of an action or thing
Synonyms: sense: suited for
word: apt
word: felicitous
word: fitting
word: suitable
Derived terms: word: appropes
word: appropriately
word: appropriateness
word: nonappropriate
word: unappropriate
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: age-appropriate
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: appropriate adult
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: appropriate technology
sense: Compound words and expressions
word: culturally appropriate
Related terms: appropriation
proper
property