proper

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adjective

1. marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness (Freq. 34)
- proper medical treatment
- proper manners
• Ant:
improper
• Similar to:
becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous,
seemly, correct, right, fitting, halal, kosher,
priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed,
straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
• See Also:
appropriate, correct, right, decent, decorous
• Derivationally related forms:
properness
• Attrubites:
propriety, properness, correctitude
2. having all the qualities typical of the thing specified (Freq. 4)
- wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack
- he finally has a proper job
• Similar to:
real
3. limited to the thing specified (Freq. 2)
- the city proper
- his claim is connected with the deed proper
• Similar to:
specific
4. appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs (Freq. 2)
- everything in its proper place
- the right man for the job
- she is not suitable for the position
• Syn:
right
• Similar to:
appropriate
• Derivationally related forms:
properness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  right, proper(ip), proper(a)