Proper

Adjective

 * 1) Suitable.
 * 2) Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.
 * ''The proper time to plant potatoes.
 * 1) Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.
 * A very proper young lady.
 * 1) Possessed, related.
 * 2)  Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper words are usually written with an initial capital letter.
 * 3) Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.
 * 4) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.1.3:
 * They have a proper saint almost for every peculiar infirmity: for poison, gouts, agues [...].
 * 1)  Belonging to oneself or itself; own.
 * 2) *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.
 * 1)  Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.
 * 2)  Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.
 * 3) Accurate, strictly applied.
 * 4) 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.
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) * 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...
 * 1)  Utter, complete.
 * When I realized I was wearing my shirt inside out, I felt a proper fool.

Synonyms

 * correct, right, apt, prudent, sensible, fitting
 * appropriate, decent, good, polite, right, well-mannered
 * appropriate, just, honorable
 * comprehensive, royal, sweeping, intensive
 * full, complete
 * complete, right, total, utter

Antonyms

 * incorrect, wrong, bad, imprudent, insensible
 * inappropriate, indecent, bad, impolite, wrong, ill-mannered, unseemly
 * inappropriate, unjust, dishonorable
 * partial, incomplete, superficial, slapdash
 * incomplete

Related terms

 * propriety
 * properly

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 propre:,  propre: (French: propre:), and their source,  proprius:.

Translations

 * Armenian: համապատասխան
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 適當, 适当, 妥當, 妥当
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, kunnon
 * French: approprié
 * German:, ,
 * Hiligaynon:
 * Hindi: उचित
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese:, 適した, , , 妥当
 * Macedonian: соодветен, прикладен,  погоден
 * Norwegian: passende, høvelig
 * Russian: подходящий, соответствующий, надлежащий
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: düzgün
 * Urdu: اچت


 * Armenian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: きちんとした, 品の良い, 上品な
 * Kurdish:


 * Macedonian: умесен, пристоен
 * Norwegian: ordentlig, veloppdragent, høvisk
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: (precedes the noun)
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese: 厳密な
 * Macedonian: самиот, самата, самото
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian:, как таковой
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: (=proper noun)
 * German: (=proper noun)
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese: 固有な
 * Macedonian: личен, сопствен
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:, 本来の, 固有の, 特有の, 独特の


 * Macedonian:, сопствен
 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian: propriu
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Japanese:, 徹底した
 * Macedonian:, ,
 * Norwegian:, ordentlig
 * Swedish: ,


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:


 * Japanese: まともな
 * Macedonian: правилен
 * Norwegian:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Finnish:
 * Japanese:, 元来の, 本来の, 固有の, 特有の


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Japanese: 全くの, ,
 * Macedonian:, вистински
 * Russian:, ,
 * Swedish: ,


 * : (munaaseb)
 * : 恰当 (qiàdàng)
 * : convenable, exact, juste, propre
 * : יאה (yɑʾe), נכון (nɑḥon)
 * : helyes, megfelelő


 * : decente, proprio
 * : 정당한 (jeokdanghan)
 * Norwegian: ,
 * : właściwy
 * : próprio
 * : propio
 * : egentlig
 * : egentlig

Anagrams

 * per pro

Adjective

 * 1) near, close
 * 2) neighbouring
 * 3) next

Adjective

 * 1)  clean

Adjective
proper


 * 1) clean