Sekirov Dictionary

appropriate

UK /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.ɪt/US /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ɪt/

adjective 5
/əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/ verb 4
forms 7

adjective5

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right for the purpose, the time or the place
- The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
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Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the checkout that my hairpiece looked like it was falling out of place.
- While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
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Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.
Of an action or thing: pleasant.
(no longer used) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

appropriate

UK /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/US /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/

verb4

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To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
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To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
(UK) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
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(no longer used) To make suitable to; to suit.
- Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror. — 1790

forms

appropriated · appropriating · appropriates · appropriateth · appropriatest · more appropriate · most appropriate

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