English adjective: proper | |||
1. | proper marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness | ||
Samples | Proper medical treatment. Proper manners. | ||
Similar | becoming, comely, comme il faut, correct, correct, decent, decorous, fitting, halal, kosher, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, right, right, seemly, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian | ||
See also | appropriate, correct, decent, decorous, right, right | ||
Attribute | correctitude, properness, propriety | ||
Antonyms | improper | ||
2. | proper having all the qualities typical of the thing specified | ||
Samples | Wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack. He finally has a proper job. | ||
Similar | real | ||
Antonyms | unreal | ||
3. | proper limited to the thing specified | ||
Samples | The city proper. His claim is connected with the deed proper. | ||
Similar | specific | ||
Antonyms | general, nonspecific | ||
4. | proper appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs | ||
Samples | Everything in its proper place. The right man for the job. She is not suitable for the position. | ||
Synonyms | right | ||
Similar | appropriate | ||
Antonyms | inappropriate | ||