Proper

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English

Adjective

Proper (comparative more Proper, superlative most Proper)

  1. Suitable.
    1. Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.
      The proper time to plant potatoes.
    2. Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.
      A very proper young lady.
  2. Possessed, related.
    1. (grammar) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper words are usually written with an initial capital letter.
    2. Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.
      • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.1.3:
        They have a proper saint almost for every peculiar infirmity: for poison, gouts, agues [...].
    3. (archaic) Belonging to oneself or itself; own.
      • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.1.ii:
        every country, and more than that, every private place, hath his proper remedies growing in it, particular almost to the domineering and most frequent maladies of it.
    4. (heraldry) Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.
    5. (mathematics, physics) Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.
  3. Accurate, strictly applied.
    1. Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)
      Now that was a proper breakfast.
    2. In the very strictest sense of the word (now often as postmodifier).
      According to the Supreme Court, tomatoes do not belong to the fruits proper.
      The school is located in the town proper.
      • 1922, James Joyce , Ulysses Episode 16
        Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper...
    3. (now colloquial) Utter, complete.
      When I realized I was wearing my shirt inside out, I felt a proper fool.

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Adverbs for Proper

conventionally; socially; altogether; acceptably; legally; punctiliously; carefully; cautiously; anxiously; graciously; courteously; politely; deferentially; respectfully; reverently; quietly; serenely; laboriously; easily; becomingly; demurely; correctly; unfailingly.

Thesaurus

Christian, OK, absolute, accepted, accommodated to, according to, according to Hoyle, accurate, acknowledged, adapted, adapted to, adjusted to, admitted, advantageous, advisable, after, agreeable to, agreeably to, all right, alone, answerable to, applicable, apposite, appropriate, approved, apropos, apt, arrant, au fait, authentic, authoritative, balanced, banausic, becoming, befitting, being done, beneficial, blamed, by, canonical, capable, characteristic, civil, classical, comely, comme il faut, commodious, competent, complete, condign, conformable, conformable to, conforming, conformist, confounded, congruent with, congruous, consistent with, consummate, convenient, conventional, correct, crashing, crass, customary, de rigueur, dead right, decent, decided, decorous, defensible, definitive, delicate, deserved, desirable, desired, diagnostic, dignified, distinct, distinctive, distinguished, downright, due, egregious, elegant, employable, equitable, established, evangelical, even, evenhanded, exact, expected, expedient, fair, fair and square, faithful, faultless, favorable, feasible, felicitous, firm, fit, fitten, fitting, flagrant, flawless, formal, fructuous, functional, genteel, gentlemanly, glaring, good, good for, gross, happy, helpful, idiocratic, idiosyncratic, in accordance with, in agreement with, in character, in compliance with, in conformity with, in correspondence to, in harmony with, in keeping with, in line with, in lock-step with, in obedience to, in step with, in uniformity with, individual, infernal, inspired, intolerable, intrinsic, just, just right, justifiable, justified, kosher, ladylike, lawful, legal, letter-perfect, level, likely, literal, marked, meet, meet and right, merited, meticulous, modest, nice, normal, normative, of general utility, of help, of service, of the faith, of use, okay, only, opportune, orthodox, orthodoxical, out-and-out, outright, own, particular, peculiar, per, perfect, polite, politic, positive, practical, pragmatical, precious, precise, prig, priggish, prissy, profitable, profound, pronounced, proper to, prudish, punctilious, puritanical, qualified, quintessential, rank, received, recognized, recommendable, refined, regular, respectable, respective, right, right and proper, righteous, rightful, rigorous, satisfactory, scriptural, seasonable, seemly, sensible, separate, serviceable, shattering, shocking, single, singular, solely, sortable, sound, special, specific, square, standard, stark, stark-staring, straight, straight-up-and-down, straitlaced, strictly speaking, stuffy, suitable, suitable for, suited, superlative, surpassing, textual, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, timely, to be desired, total, traditional, traditionalistic, true, true to form, true-blue, unbearable, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, uniform with, unique, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, urbane, useful, usual, utilitarian, utter, warrantable, warranted, well-chosen, well-expressed, well-put, well-timed, wicked, wise, worthwhile

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman propre, Old French propre (French: propre), and their source, Latin proprius.

Pronunciation

  • (Australian) IPA: /ˈprɔp.ə/, SAMPA: /"prOp.@/
  • (UK) IPA: /ˈpɹɒ.pə/, SAMPA: /"prQ.p@/
  • (US) enPR: präpʹər, IPA: /ˈpɹɑ.pəɹ/, SAMPA: /"prAp.@`/
  • Audio (US)noicon(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒpə(r)
  • Hyphenation: prop‧er

Translations

fit, suitable
following the established standards of behavior or manners
in the very strictest sense of the word
grammar: designating a particular person, place or thing
belonging to oneself or itself, own
complete, thorough
entitled to its name, true
heraldry: having its natural or usual coloration
informal: utter
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Catalan

Adjective

  1. near, close
  2. neighbouring
  3. next

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Dutch

Adjective

Proper (comparative properder, superlative Properst)

  1. (chiefly Flemish) clean

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈpro.pər/
  • Hyphenation: pro‧per

German

Adjective

proper

  1. clean
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