proper
Adjective
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Marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness (synset 301884565)
"proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"also:
- appropriate - suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- correct, right - free from error; especially conforming to fact or truth
- decent - conforming to conventions of sexual behavior
- decorous - characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct
- right - in conformance with justice or law or morality
similar to:- becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly - according with custom or propriety
- correct, right - socially right or correct
- correct, right - in accord with accepted standards of usage or procedure
- decent, fitting - in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion
- halal - proper or legitimate
- kosher - proper or legitimate
- priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian - exaggeratedly proper
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Having all the qualities typical of the thing specified (synset 301944939)
"wanted a proper dinner, not just a snack"; "he finally has a proper job"similar to: real - no less than what is stated; worthy of the name
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Limited to the thing specified (synset 301108582)
"the city proper"; "his claim is connected with the deed proper"similar to: specific - (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique
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Appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs (synset 300136526)
"everything in its proper place"; "the right man for the job"; "she is not suitable for the position"similar to: appropriate - suitable for a particular person or place or condition etcsame as: right
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