appropriate

Meanings

Adjective

• Suitable or fit; proper.
• Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
• Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Verb

• To make suitable to; to suit.
• To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
• To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
• To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

Related

Opposite words

• inappropriate

Origin

• From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio, from ad + proprio, from proprius.