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Definition of Proper
1. Adjective. Marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness. "Proper manners"
Also: Appropriate, Correct, Right, Decent, Decorous, Right
Similar to: Becoming, Comely, Comme Il Faut, Decent, Decorous, Seemly, Correct, Right, Correct, Right, Fitting, Halal, Kosher, Priggish, Prim, Prissy, Prudish, Puritanical, Square-toed, Straight-laced, Straightlaced, Strait-laced, Straitlaced, Tight-laced, Victorian
Antonyms: Improper
Derivative terms: Properness
2. Adjective. Having all the qualities typical of the thing specified. "He finally has a proper job"
3. Adjective. Limited to the thing specified. "His claim is connected with the deed proper"
4. Adjective. Appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs. "She is not suitable for the position"
Definition of Proper
1. a. Belonging to one; one's own; individual.
2. adv. Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
Definition of Proper
1. Adjective. Suitable. ¹
2. Adjective. Possessed, related. ¹
3. Adjective. Accurate, strictly applied. ¹
4. Adverb. (Scotland) properly; thoroughly; completely ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proper
1. suitable [adj -ERER, -EREST] : PROPERLY [adv] / a portion of the Mass [n -S] - See also: suitable
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proper
Literary usage of Proper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin (1906)
"proper Location for a road consists in putting it in such a position that people
using it can reach their destinations with the least time and effort. ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, Ernest Myers (1905)
"PRONUNCIATION OF proper NAMES In this volume the translators have spelled proper
names as nearly as possible like the Greek originals. Vowels. ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1881)
"... intermediate, erring, half-lighted objects, which have a disorderly movement
in the region between being and not-being, are the proper ..."
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