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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