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English
Etymology
From Middle English appropriaten, from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“‘to make one's own’”), from ad (“‘to’”) + proprio (“‘to make one's own’”), from proprius (“‘one's own, private’”).
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- (RP) enPR: əprō'priĭt, əprō'priət, IPA: /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹiː.ɪt/, /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹiː.ət/, SAMPA: /@"pr@U.pri:.It/, /@"pr@U.pri:.@t/
- (US) enPR: əprō'priĭt, əprō'priət, IPA: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ɪt/, /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ət/, SAMPA: /@"proU.pri.It/, /@"proU.pri.@t/
- Verb
- (RP) IPA: /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹiː.eɪt/, SAMPA: /@"pr@U.pri:.eIt/
- (US) enPR: əprō'priāt, IPA: /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/, SAMPA: /@"proU.pri.eIt/
Adjective
appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)
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Positive appropriate |
Comparative more appropriate |
Superlative most appropriate |
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
- Hence, belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
- The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
- In its strict and appropriate meaning. --Beilby Porteus.
- Appropriate acts of divine worship. --Edward Stillingfleet.
- It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. --John Locke.
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- 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.
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Derived terms
Translations
obsolete: set apart for a particular use or person
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Verb
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Infinitive to appropriate |
Third person singular appropriates |
Simple past appropriated |
Past participle appropriated |
Present participle appropriating |
to appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable; to suit. -- William Paley.
- (transitive) To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, "let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others;—with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. --Blackstone.
Translations
To take to one's self in exclusion of others
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External links
- "appropriate" at OneLook® Dictionary Search
- appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Italian
Adjective
appropriate f.
- Feminine plural form of appropriato
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