Meaning of appropriate in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To make suitable; to suit.

• To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

  Example: Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.

• To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.

  Example: A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.

• To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

adjective

• Suitable or fit; proper.

  Example: The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.

• Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.

  Example: I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.

• Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.