appropriate meaning
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- VerbSGappropriatesPRappropriatingPT, PPappropriatedSUF-iate
- AdjectiveCOMmore appropriateSUPmost appropriate
- OBS Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
- Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
- The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
- 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 check-out that my hair-piece 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.
- OBS Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- It was appropriate that 'King' number 6000 began the return to steam on British Rail metals in 1971.
- We acknowledge that the presence of megamitochondria was not prospectively predetermined with the appropriate recommendations, such as the high magnitude power field (600 vs400).
- Functions... are specialized, or separated from each other, and... a complicated set of organs is appropriated to each of them.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Once a business gets off the ground, a different management style may become appropriate.
- There was no time of day that ever seemed appropriate.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of appropriate in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary

