English > proper: 4 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness. |
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| Examples | - "proper medical treatment"
- "proper manners"
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| Attribute of | propriety, properness, correctitude | correct or appropriate behavior |
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| Narrower | becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly | according with custom or propriety |
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| correct, right | socially right or correct |
| correct, right | In accord / accord with accepted standards of usage / usage or procedure |
| fitting, decent | In harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion |
| halal | Proper or legitimate / legitimate |
| kosher | Proper or legitimate / legitimate |
| priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian | exaggeratedly proper |
| See also | appropriate | Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc |
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| correct, right | Free from error |
| 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 |
| Opposite | improper | not suitable or right or appropriate |
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| Spanish | apropiado |
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| Catalan | apropiat |
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| Nouns | properness | correct or appropriate behavior |
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| Adverbs | properly | in the right manner |
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| properly | in an appropriate manner |
