proper (a)

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type a
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def marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
examples proper medical treatment
proper manners
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Also see appropriate; correct, right; decent; decorous; right
Attribute propriety, properness, correctitude
Derivationally related form proper → properness
Antonym proper → improper
Similar to becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly; correct, right; correct, right; fitting; halal; kosher; priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
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Also see appropriate; correct, right; decent; decorous; right
Similar to becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly; correct, right; correct, right; fitting; halal; kosher; priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
Antonym improper → proper
Derived from adjective properly → proper
Derivationally related form properness → proper
Attribute propriety, properness, correctitude

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