appropriate
IPA: ʌprˈoʊpriʌt
verb
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
adjective
- Suitable or fit; proper.
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
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Examples of "appropriate" in Sentences
- The man's joke was not appropriate.
- A nightgown is the appropriate term.
- This is not the appropriate juncture.
- The toddler image was not appropriate.
- That is not appropriate and not excusable.
- The inclusion of the image is appropriate.
- The parallelism is of course not appropriate.
- As for the appropriateness of the image in question.
- The article is already in the correct categories with the appropriate sorting.
- In general the players' energy, sometimes dispensed almost violently, seemed appropriate to these mercurial works.
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