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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 | ||
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