Proper

Definition: Proper

Proper

Adjective

1. Marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness; "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners".

2. Having all the qualities typical of the thing specified; "wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack"; "he finally has a proper job".

3. Limited to the thing specified; "the city proper"; "his claim is connected with the deed proper".

4. Appropriate for a condition or occasion; "everything in its proper place"; "the right man for the job"; "she is not suitable for the position".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "proper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Math

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Proper

Agreement

At home, in one's proper element.

Beauty

Adjective: beautiful, beauteous; handsome; gorgeous; pretty; lovely, graceful, elegant, prepossessing; attractive; (inviting); delicate, dainty, refined; fair, personable, comely, seemly; bonny; good-looking; well-favored, well-made, well-formed, well-proportioned; proper, shapely; symmetrical; (regular); harmonious; (color); sightly.

Dueness

Fitting; correct, proper, meet, befitting, becoming, seemly; decorous; creditable, up to the mark, right as a trivet; just the thing, quite the thing; selon les r

Duty

Morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness; (probity); conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within. dueness; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, gr/to prepon/gr the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do.

Expedience

Adjective: expedient; desirable, advisable, acceptable; convenient; worth while, meet; fit, fitting; due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming; befitting; Verb: opportune; (in season); in loco; suitable; (accordant); applicable; (useful).

Identification

Verb: identify, recognize, match, match up; classify; recall, remember; (memory); find similarity (similarity); put in its proper place, put in its proper niche, place in order (arrangement).

Nomenclature

Style, proper name; praenomen, agnomen, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination; eponym; compellation, description, antonym; empty name; handle to one's name; namesake.

Occasion

Noun: {ant. } timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room; event (eventuality); suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness; Adjective: tempestivity.

Adverb: opportunely; Adjective: in proper course, in due course, in proper season, in due season, in proper time, in due time; for the nonce; in the nick of time, in the fullness of time; all in good time; just in time, at the eleventh hour, now or never.

Order

Adjective: orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in apple-pie order, in its proper place; neat, tidy, en regle, well regulated, correct, methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic; unconfused; (see confuse; ); arranged.

Probity

Verb: be honorable; Adjective: deal honorably, deal squarely, deal impartially, deal fairly; speak the truth; (veracity); draw a straight furrow; tell the truth and shame the Devil, vitam impendere vero; show a proper spirit, make a point of; do one's duty; (virtue).

Skill

Experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed; up in, well up in; in practice, in proper cue; competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted, fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished.

Speciality

Adjective: special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal, original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain, esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several, characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular; (exceptional); idiomatic; idiotypical; typical.

Will

Adverb: voluntarily; Adjective: at will, at pleasure; a volonte, a discretion; al piacere; ad libitum, ad arbitrium; as one thinks proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito.

Willingness

See fit, think good, think proper; acquiesce; (assent); comply with.

Crosswords: Proper

Catalan (next), Dutch (clean, pure), German (neat, Spruce, tidy, trim).

Believe me, Mr. Bond, I could shoot you from Stuttgart und still create ze proper effect (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein)

Because I want to be proper! (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman)

Now, call me foolish, call me irresponsible, but it occurs to me that a 500 megaton bomb planted at just the proper point would, uh (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

The proper gentlemen (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I'm, uh, a proper citizen (All the President's Men; writing credit: Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward)

Breaking these fools off proper like (Funkdafied; performing artist: Da Brat)

Well if it's good enough to get broke off a proper chunk (Nuthin But A "G" Thang; performing artist: Dr. Dre)

If they don't give me proper credit (Material Girl; performing artist: Madonna)

No proper shoes upon my feet (Make it Happen; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

Course happened to have the proper access needed to obtain a small vial (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

A cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup. (references; author: unknown)

A proper cup of coffee is a proper coffee cup. (references; author: unknown)

Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup. (references; author: unknown)

Paul, please pause for proper applause. (references; author: unknown)

Love with a Proper Stranger (1973)

The Proper Time (1960)

Proper volk (1996)

Young Ladies' Proper Behavior (1991)

Love with the Proper Stranger (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Proper Marriage (Zebra Regency Romance) (reference)

• Accounting with QuickBooks and QuickBooks Pro with Proper Accounting (reference)

• Crossword Proper Name Finder (reference)

• In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (reference)

• The Good Citizen's Handbook : A Guide to Proper Behavior (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Proper Dance Music (reference)

• Love With the Proper Stranger (reference)

• Proper Place in the World (reference)

• Secrets of Proper Rose Care (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Adorate Deum: Gregorian Chant from the Proper of the Mass (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A scientist is screening a baboon virus and comparing it with HIV-I for similarities. Bacteriophage colonies are grown to determine whether there is a similarity in the two viruses and to discover the proper sequence of the AIDS virus. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Seen is a "beam of light" traveling along fiber optics for photodynamic therapy for use in an operating room. Its source is a laser beam which is split at two different stages to create the proper "therapeutic wavelength". The patient has been given a photo sensitive drug containing cancer killing substances which are absorbed by cancer cells. During the surgery, the light beam is positioned at the tumor site, which then activates the drug that kills the cancer cells, thus photodynamic therapy. Credit: John Crawford (photographer).

Strategies for prevention includes proper safety procedures for babies in cars. Credit: CDC.

Gross pathology of cotton rat infected with Echinococcus multilocularis. First E. locularis isolated in the United States proper. Necropsy. Credit: CDC.

King Neptune making sure that a Pollywog attains the proper aroma A 1985 crossing of the line on the MALCOLM BALDRIGE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Base line measurement - maintaining proper tension on the tape. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Army Creek proper is a sixty-acre site, the creek is approximately 3.9 miles long and is a tributary of the Delaware River, there are 225 acres of emergent wetlands adjacent to the creek. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Figure 33. Meyer slow registering thermometer invented by Dr. Adolph Meyer and first used on the POMMERANIA in 1871 and then by various German scientific studies. It was used down to 50 meters but would stay submerged for about an hour to register the proper temperature because it was highly insulated. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Cow manure showing proper fiber and moisture content indicating balanced feed. Benton, Arkansas. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Proper grazing use on an intensive grazing system in benton, Arkansas. The producer rotates cells every 3 weeks during the growing season. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

On the other side, honour and support, all that which gratitude requires to return for the benefits received by and from them, is the indispensable duty of the child, and the proper privilege of the parents. (Second Treatise of Government)

Clause 1: The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. (reference)

An oppressed class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and self-governing association in the mediaeval commune; here independent urban republic (as in Italy and Germany), there taxable "third estate" of the monarchy (as in France), afterwards, in the period of manufacture proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact, corner-stone of the great monarchies in general, the bourgeoisie has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the world-market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative State, exclusive political sway. (reference)

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. (The Gettysburg Address)

It shall take all steps which it thinks proper to ensure the freedom, fairness, and secrecy of the vote. (reference)

The limitations on the interrogation process required for the protection of the individual's constitutional rights should not cause an undue interference with a proper system of law enforcement, as demonstrated by the procedures of the FBI and the safeguards afforded in other jurisdictions. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It would not be a bad thing for her to be very much in love with a proper object

You rise a few steps, and from the garden pass into the orchard proper.

And to inquire what kind of beauty is proper to each of the various arts

Now they were in the yard proper, earth beaten hard, shiny hard, and a few dusty crawling weeds on the ground

Thus much I thought proper to tell you in relation to yourself, and to the trust I reposed in you.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Maintain proper hand-washing habits. (references)

Use proper food handling techniques. (references)

Finding the proper facility can itself prove difficult. (references)

Business

Proper certification of each pesticide usually takes 2-3 years. (references)

Customs officials are extremely strict with regards to proper documentation. (references)

Plus importers have to pay VAT tax and provide proper certification documentation. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

Generally, staff members at many such institutions lack the proper qualifications and training to care for the children adequately. (references)

Georgia

Persons with Disabilities There is no legislated or otherwise mandated provision requiring access for persons with disabilities; however, the law mandates that the State ensure appropriate conditions for persons with disabilities to use freely the social infrastructure and to ensure proper protection and support. (references)

Bulgaria

However, many of the orphanages are in disrepair and lack proper facilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Russia

There are many credible reports that police imposed fines on unregistered persons in excess of legal requirements and did not provide proper receipts or documentation of the fine. (references)

Ghana

The media also claimed that the new board members were appointed without proper consultation with the Council of State, as required by the NCA Act. (references)

Ghana

Officials said that the Liberians were not carrying proper travel documents and that none of them asked for refugee status. (references)

Economic History

Romania

He is the Chief of State, charged with safeguarding the constitution, foreign affairs, and the proper functioning of public authorities. (references)

Burma

To set up a joint venture, foreign firms have reported that it is useful to be affiliated with MEHL or MEC in order to receive the proper business permits. (references)

Nigeria

Any traveler possessing proper CBN documentation may access the commercial banking system for obtaining travelers checks. (references)

Human Rights

Dominican Republic

When the police refused to allow them to be tried in civilian courts, the Attorney General asked the Supreme Court to determine whether the police court or a civilian court was the proper forum for this case. (references)

Bulgaria

Due to its composition and inadequate support staff the SJC, which is responsible for the proper administration of justice and drafting the judiciary's budget, was not able to effectively set the judiciary's budget, ensure the effectiveness of judges, or protect the judiciary's independence. (references)

Switzerland

Critics claim that police officers lack proper restraining techniques. (references)

Indigenous People

Thailand

Members of hilltribes without proper documentation, who account for approximately half the estimated 700,000 to 880,000 such persons, still face restrictions on their movement, may not own land, and are not protected by labor laws, including minimum wage requirements. (references)

Minorities

India

He stated that "There is a conversion motive behind the welfare activities being carried out by some Christian missionaries in the country's backward areas, and it is not proper, although conversion is permissible under the law." During 2000 there were numerous attacks on Christians throughout the country, including a series of attacks in Uttar Pradesh in April 2000 and the bombing of a Christian meeting in Andkha Pradesh in May 2000. The Muslim extremist organization Deendar Anjuman was implicated in the bombing, several of its members were arrest and charged in connection with the incident, and the group was banned on May 3. In June 2000, Vijay Ekka, a witness in the killing earlier that month of a priest in Mathura, died in police custody. (references)

Political Economy

Israel and the occupied territories

Nearly 2,000 terror attacks, including suicide bombings, drive-by shootings, mortar and grenade attacks, and stabbings took place during the year in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel proper. (references)

Political Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

Former President Bedie was disqualified for not submitting a proper medical certificate. (references)

Cote d'Ivoire

Thousands of Gbagbo supporters began protesting almost immediately, demanding a proper vote count. (references)

Trade

Burma

Temporary imports and exports may be allowed for trade promotion or assembly purposes with proper documentation from the Customs Department. (references)

Travel

Ukraine

For example, a letter authorizing Mr. X to do Y will sometimes be rejected because it does not have "the proper stamp." Foreign companies will often stamp a document in English with an "official" seal, show the stamp to a customs officer or other bureaucrat (who likely cannot read English anyway), finding that this strategy is often successful. (references)

Bulgaria

Travelers are subject to arbitrary document checks by the police, and persons traveling without proper identification may be detained while their right to be in the country is verified. (references)

Bolivia

Hepatitis and rabies are common in Bolivia, although with proper vaccinations both can usually be avoided. (references)

Women

Nicaragua

Those cases that actually reached the courts usually resulted in not guilty verdicts due to judicial inexperience with, and lack of legal training related to, proper judicial handling of such violence. (references)

Ghana

FIDA presented the draft bill to the Director of Legislative Drafting of the Parliament, who is responsible for converting proposed bills into proper legislative format for eventual consideration by Parliament. (references)

Worker Rights

Ghana

On October 1, workers from DL Steel Limited demonstrated to protest management's intention to close the company without proper negotiations with the workers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "proper": apply to the proper authority ♦ at the proper time ♦ be proper ♦ brazing proper ♦ classifier system proper ♦ good and proper ♦ in one's proper element ♦ In proper ♦ in the proper way ♦ philosophy proper ♦ prim and proper ♦ proper behaviour ♦ proper condition ♦ proper corolla ♦ proper course ♦ proper diphthong ♦ proper factor ♦ proper flower ♦ proper fraction ♦ proper function ♦ proper involucre ♦ proper man ♦ proper motion ♦ proper name ♦ proper nectary ♦ proper noun ♦ proper perianth ♦ proper preface ♦ proper receptacle ♦ proper rhythm ♦ proper subelement ♦ proper time ♦ proper transition ♦ proper value ♦ put in its proper niche ♦ put in its proper place ♦ that is proper word ♦ the proper thing to do ♦ think proper ♦ title proper ♦ with my own proper eyes. Additional references.

Beginning with "proper": proper-named, proper-nouns, proper-use.

Ending with "proper": ever-so-proper, less-than-proper, tournament-proper.

Afrikaans

juis (accurate, correct, exact, precise, right), behoorlik (decent, decently, fitting, properly, suitable), reg (correct, exact, jurisprudence, law, right, true). (various references)

Albanian

vetiak (one-man, personal, personalized, private), tipik (characteristic, classic, classical, exemplary, peculiar, typical, vintage, your), me vend (apposite, appositely, apt, happy, Pat, pertinent, reasonable, right, seemly, suitable, to the point, welcome), i vërtetë (actual, authentic, bona fide, downright, effective, faithful, flesh and blood, genuine, objective, perfect, positive, practical, pucka, real, right, substantial, true, truthful, uncoined, unfailing, unfeigned, veracious, veritable, virtual), i pashëm (dashing, good looking, handsome, nice-looking, personable, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), i përveçëm, i përshtatshëm (adapt, adequate, adjustable, appropriate, becoming, befitting, canny, comely, competent, congruous, convenient, decent, desirable, done, due, elastic, eligible, expedient, fit, fitting, germane, handy, likely, livable, liveable, opportune, Pat, propitious, qualified, rated, relevant, seemly, suitable, suited, tenable, well-becoming, well-suited), i përkryer (absolute, accomplished, blithering, consummate, perfect, top-hole, watertight), i mbaruar (arrant, done, finished, haggard, out of hand, past, perfect), i duhur (accordant, appropriate, befitting, comely, due, due to, fitting, indispensable, necessary, needful, owing, required, right). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وقور (lordly, magisterial, sedate, serious, sober, solemn, staid, thoughtful), ‏أخلاقي (moral), ‏أصلي (authentic, bona fide, ethnic, ethnical, fundamental, genetic, genetical, original, overriding, premier, prime, primordial, pristine, pukka, radical, true), ‏أصيل (evening, genuine, original, purebred, quaint, sincere, thoroughbred, trueborn, well bred), ‏إصولي, ‏خاص (ad hoc, individual, particular, peculiar, personal, private, privy, relative, special, specific), ‏صحيح (accurate, alright, aright, be in the right, consonantal, correct, entire, exact, faithful, hale, honest, indeed, ortho, plumb, precise, pure, real, reasonable, regular, right, seemly, sincere, true, unbroken, valid, veracious, veritable, whole), ‏شريف (honorable, honourable, noble, noble origin, reputable, sheriff, upstanding, virtuous), ‏حقيقي (actual, authentic, effective, essential, factual, genuine, intrinsic, intrinsical, positive, real, realistic, right, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, veritable, very), ََصَاغ (regular), ‏قويم (orthodox, right, straight), ‏لائق (becoming, comeliness, correct, decent, decorous, fit, qualified, seemly, suitable), ‏مضبوط (accurate, all right, correct, exact, ok, okay, okey, perfect, precise, right, sound, valid), ‏موفق (felicitous, fit, mediator), ‏ملائم (acceptable, accordant, adapted, adequate, advantageous, agreeable, agreeing, appropriate, apt, becoming, click, compatible, concordant, conformable, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, convenient, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, fit, fitting, harmonious, in accord, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, matching, opportune, propitious, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), ‏مناسب (adequate, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, conformable, congruent, congruous, convenient, due, expedient, favorable, favourable, feasible, felicitous, fit, fitting, harmonious, in agreement, in conformity, in harmony, opportune, pat, right, seasonable, seemly, suitable, suited, timely), ‏طقس ديني خاص. (various references)

Bulgarian 

голям (almighty, big, chunking, gone, great, grown up, hearty, heavy, hefty, jolly, large, major, man-sized, massive, near, numerous, powerful, vast, vasty, walloping), истински (actual, authentic, authentically, bona fide, factual, for real, genuine, genuinely, good, honest, mere, natural, par excellence, positive, precious, pucka, pukka, pure, real, regular, regularly, right, right-down, sheer, simon-pure, thorough, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, true, true blue, true born, truly, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veridical, veritable, very, virtual), подобаващ (becoming, befitting, due, fit, seemly, worthy), подходящ (adaptable, adequate, agreeable, answerable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, congenial, congruent, congruous, convenient, correct, correspondent, fit, fitting, germane, god given, likely, opportune, pointful, propitious, sensible, suitable, suited, sympathetic, worthy), приет (done, legitimate, received, regular, standing), пригоден (adjusted, agreeable, available, convenient), пристоен (high-toned, seemly), присъщ (immanent, incidental, indigenous, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural, radical, resident), правилен (accurate, correct, good, just, normal, okay, regular, right, straight, true), благоприличен (christian, decent, decorous, modest, tasteful), изобразен в естествени цветове, в тесен смисъл на думата, същински (arrant, positive, pure, rank, real, regular, sheer, simple, veritable, very), точен (accurate, careful, correct, exact, express, faithful, just, literal, minute, narrow, near, perfect, pinpoint, precise, precision, punctual, refined, right, rigorous, scientific, sensitive, straight, strict, true, unerring, veracious, well-directed), характерен (distinctive, idiosyncratic, racy, representative, specific), хубав (beautiful, bonny, fair, fine, good, good looking, goodly, handsome, jolly, neat, nice, nice-looking, personable, pretty, rich, seemly, sightly, well favored, well-favoured), собствен (independent, individual, own, peculiar), свойствен (congenial, habitual, immanent, inherent, intrinsic, peculiar, specific), удобен (agreeable, appropriate, carriageable, comfortable, comfy, convenient, cozy, easy, favorable, favourable, good, ready made, suitable), уместен (advisable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, felicitous, germane, good, happy, neat, opportune, pertinent, poignant, pointful, relevant, timely, to the point, well timed, well-judged), строго морален, съответен (adequate, analogous, appropriate, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, correspondent, corresponding, homologous, opposite, parallel, reciprocal, relevant, respective, several), надлежен. (various references)

Chinese 

适当 (Advisable, Appropriate, Due, Expedient, Proprieties, Propriety, suitable), 當 (adequate, at or in the very same..., during, equal, fitting, just at, manage, match equally, obstruct, on the spot, ought, replace, represent, right, same, should, suitable, to act as, to be, to pawn, when, withstand), 端正 (correct, regular, upright), 應有 , 正確 (correct), 得宜 (appropriate, suitable), 得 (a sentence particle used after a verb to show effect, allow, contented, degree or possibility, finished, gain, get, must, obtain, ought to, permit, proud, ready, suitable, to have to, to need to), 允當 (suitable), 宜 (appropriate, complete, entire, should, suitable, to be over, to finish, whole), 妥當 (appropriate, ready), 妥善 (appropriate). (various references)

Czech

pravý (authentic, direct, genuine, good, real, right, straight, true, true born, truthful, unadulterated, unfeigned, veritable, very), vlastní (inherent, intrinsic, intrinsical, own, particular, peculiar, personal, respective, underlying, whole), vhodný (adequate, advisable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, convenient, desirable, eligible, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitting, good, happy, matching, opportune, presentable, propitious, right, sufficient, suitable, suited), správný (correct, good, grammatical, just, precise, regular, right, sporting), slušný (becoming, civilized, clean, decent, equitable, fair, good, polite, presentable, reasonable, respectable, seemly, white), řádný (decent, good, regular). (various references)

Danish

rigtig (correct, exact, right). (various references)

Dutch

fatsoenlijk (decent, fitting, suitable), behoorlijk (properly, suitable), behoorlijk (decently, fitting, properly, suitable), betamelýk (appropriate, becoming, decent, fitting, seemly, suitable), betamelijk (suitable), betamelijk (becoming, decent, fitting, suitable), behoorlýk (decent, decently, fitting, properly, suitable), fatsoenlijk (honest, properly, suitable), welvoeglijk (suitable), goed (agreed, clothes, clothing, correct, estate, exact, farm, fine, good, nice, OK, okay, possession, property, ranch, right, very good, well), juist (accurate, correct, exact, exactly, just, just now, okay, precise, right, sharp, striking, true), keurig (decent, fitting, gentlemanlike, jaunty, ladylike, pretty, suitable), recht (correct, direct, exact, jurisprudence, law, right, right-angle, square, straight, tax), voegzaam (decent, fitting, suitable), welvoeglýk (decent, fitting, suitable), fatsoenlýk (above-board, decent, decently, fitting, honest, properly, suitable, upright). (various references)

Esperanto

deca (decent, fitting, suitable), ĝusta (correct, exact, right). (various references)

Farsi 

مناسب (Able, Adaptable, Adequate, Apposite, Appropriate, Apt, Becoming, Convenient, Expedient, Fit, Material, Meet, Moderate, Opportune, Pertain, Relevant, Suitable, Winsome), مطبوع (Dainty, Douce, Exquisite, Fun, Graceful, Handsome, Lief, Scrumptious, Sweet, Toothsome), مربوط (Affiliate, Apposite, Coherent, Coordinate, Dependent, Germane, Material, Pertinenet, Relevant), چنانکه شایدوباید, شایسته (Able, Apropos, Apt, Becoming, Competent, Fit, Good, Intrinsic, Meet, Meritorious, Seemly, Suitable, Worthy), بموقع (Apropos, Opportune, Pat, Punctual, Timely), بجا (Apposite, Apropos, Just, Opportune, Pertinenet, Right, Timely). (various references)

Finnish

oikea (correct, due, exact, genuine, just, real, right, true). (various references)

French

convenable (pretty), exact. (various references)

German

richtig (accurate, affirmative, aright, correct, correctly, duly, exact, fit, justly, properly, quite, real, really, regular, right, rightly, thoroughly, true, unmitigated, unmitigatedly), passend (acceptable, apposite, appropriate, appropriately, apropos, apt, aptly, befittingly, compatibility, compatible, convenient, convienient, feasible, fitting, fittingly, matching, opportune, pertinent, pertinently, properly, relevant, suitable, suitably, well-fitting), ordentlich (fairly, full, neat, neatly, orderly, prim, properly, real, reasonable, regular, reputable, respectable, seemily, seemy, tidily, tidy, trim, uncluttered, unruffled), gehörig (belonging, decent, fitting, incidental, necessary, requisite, sound, soundly, suitable), eigen (fussy, independent, individual, inherent, own, particular, peculiar, peculiarly, personal, possessive, possessively, separate, strange, to own, typical), angebracht (advisable, apposite, appropriate, expedient, fit, fitting, fittingly, reasonable). (various references)

Greek 

αρμόζων (becoming, befitting, fit, fitting, pertinent). (various references)

Hebrew 

מתוקן (corrected, improved, mended, repaired), מתאים (applicable, apposite, appropriate, apt, concurrent, congruous, convenient, fit, fitting, germane, likely, meet, propitious, suitable), יאה (befitting, fitting, seemly, suitable), תקין (normal, orderly, regular, standard), כשר (fair, fit, kosher, right, worthy), הגון (chaste, decent, honest, respectable, upstanding), ראוי (appropriate, deserving, designated, fit, fitting, meet, suitable, worth, worthy), נאות (adequate, appropriate, beauty, becoming, comeliness, decent, due, fit, seemly, suitable), נכון (clear, correct, exact, just, o.k., prepared, ready, right, sound, true). (various references)

Hungarian

sajátos (individual, particular, particularistic, peculiar, special, specific), helyénvaló (anomalous, apposite, appropriate, impertinent, legitimate, pertinent, right). (various references)

Indonesian

yogya (fitting), yogia (fitting), sepantasnya (fitting), senonoh (polite), sebenarnya (actual, actually, in fact, truly). (various references)

Irish

cuí, chóir (proper order). (various references)

Italian

decente (chaste, decent, decorous, descreet, discreet, fitting, reasonable, seemly, suitable). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

妥当 (appropriate, right, valid). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ただしい (correct, honest, just, perfect, right, righteous, straightforward, truthful), おんとう (comfortably hot bath, hot spring, reasonable, right), プロパー (propagandist), そうとう (cleaning up, complete annihilation, double-headed, fair, generalissimo, hitting upon, mopping up, president, strife, struggle, suitable, sweeping or mopping up, sweeping up, thinking of, tolerable), しかるべき (appropriate, due, suitable), しとう (band, faction, fair, fingertip, just, personal struggle, struggle "to the death"), まっとう (accomplish, complete, fulfill, preserve, respectable), どうぜん (child-faced, ditto, ibid., just, natural, right, same, same as above, similar to), ほどよい (just right, moderate), せいそく (correct, formal, inhabiting, inhabitting, living, normal, regular, systematic), せいとうせい (legal), せいとう (conquest, correct answer, due, due east, equitable, just, justifiable, lawful, legitimate, meticulous, orthodox, political party, porcelain manufacturing, reasonable, refined sugar, right, subjugation, sugar manufacture, sugar refining, traditional), じゅんとう (reasonable, right), だとう (appropriate, defeat, knockdown, overthrow, right, valid). (various references)

Korean 

적당한 (Advisable, Appropriate, suitable). (various references)

Manx

kiart (accurate, concession, correct, due, exact, just, level, orthodox, precise, prerogative, pukka, right, thorough-paced, title, true, true real, undeviating), jeih- (chosen, correct, correct as behaviour, excellent), cairagh (fair, impartial, just, justifiable). (various references)

Pig Latin

operpray.(various references)

Polish

właściwy (correct, exact, right). (various references)

Portuguese

próprio (becoming, congenial, correct, due, fit, fitting, good, herself, himself, itself, meet, own, particular, personal, rightdown, seemly, self, selfsame, special, suitable, very), conveniente (advisable, appropriate, becoming, beseeming, congenial, congruous, convenient, due, fitting, friendly, handy, of use, opportune, propitious, rightdown, seasonable, seemly, suitable, timely, well-timed, wieldy), apropriado (adequate, applicable, apposite, appropriate, becoming, competent, conforming, congruous, decent, felicitous, fitting, good, happy, likely, opportune, rightdown, seemly, suitable). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

próprios, próprio (own). (various references)

Romanian

propriu-zis (in fact, properly), propriu (adequate, appropriate, fitting, inherent, intrinsic, own, peculiar, personal, resident, salient, suitable), potrivit (according, according to, adequate, ample, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, assorted, average, becoming, befitting, commensurate, condign, congenial, congruous, conservative, correct, corresponding, decorous, due, duly, eligible, felicitous, fit, fitting, in point, likely, middling, moderate, moderately, opportune, Pat, pursuant to, right, seemly, suitable, suited, to), pe cinste (properly), indicat (adequate, expedient), adevãrat (actual, correct, forsooth, genuine, honestly, in truth, indeed, positive, positively, quite right, real, really and truly, regular, sheer, sooth, Square, stark, true, truthful, veraciously, veritable, very), arãtos (bonny, brave, dashing, goodly, handsome, personable, showy), bun (affectionate, applicable, belongings, beneficial, benevolent, bonny, bright, canny, capital, clever, decent, domain, eminent, fair, favorable, favourable, fine, fit, fitting, fond, fortunate, fortune, genuine, good, goods, grand, grandfather, grandparent, happy, honest, humane, kind, kindly, nice, okay, pleasurable, real, right, salutary, skilful, skillful, soft-hearted, splendid, suitable, true, upright, useful, virtuous, well, wholesome), caracteristic (characteristic, discriminative, distinctive, exemplary, peculiar, representative, typical), cuvenit (due, just), exact (accurate, accurately, by the square, careful, clean-cut, clipping, clockwork, correct, dead, directly, due, even, exact, exactly, faithful, fitting, flat, for all the world, formal, just, just so, narrow, perfect, precise, precisely, punctual, punctually, regular, right, rigorous, scholarly, sharp, slick, straight, strict, strictly, that's the idea, to a day, to a hair's breadth, true, truly, you've hit it), adecvat (adequate, adequately, applicable, appropriate, befitting, condign, fit, likely, meetly, opportune, pertinently, suitable), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plush, plushy, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking), straşnic (clinking, colossal, considerable, damnably, excellent, excessive, extreme, fine, gee, goody, grand, horrible, jolly, magnificent, mightily, nifty, properly, rigorous, severe, severely, smashing, solid, some, sound, stern, swell, terrible, terribly, thundering, tremendous, with a vengeance), real (actual, effective, effectual, factual, live, natural, real, sheer, sooth, substantial, tangible, true, truthful, very), special (especial, express, extra, particular, peculiar, special, specially), specific (appropriate, distinctive, individual, note, peculiar, quiddity, singularity, specific, specifically), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, clean, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured). (various references)

Russian 

правильный (accurate, correct, exact, just, orderly, regular, right, right-on, simple, true, valid, well-becoming, well-formed). (various references)

Scottish

iomchuidh (expedient, fit, meet, suitable), eireachdail (becoming, graceful, handsome), dù (fit, just, meet, native., suitable), ceart (certain : a cheart cho, correct, justice, propriety, quite as, right, righthand, same). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pristojan (decent, decorous, respectable, seemly), priličiti (be suitable, become), pravi (genuine, ortho-, plumb, pucka, pukka, real, sheer, simon-pure, stark, sterling, thorough, true), pogodan (apt, conducive, convenient, favorable, favourable, fit, fitting, likely, serviceable, suitable), podesan (becoming, compatible, felicitous, fitting, opportune, pat, ready, snug, suitable, timely, well-suited), umestan, sopstven (own), osoben (distinctive), dolikovati (become). (various references)

Spanish

preciso (accurate, correct, definite, exact, necessary, pinpoint, precise, requisite, right), conveniente (accordant, advisable, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, beseeming, convenient, decent, due, expedient, fitting, meet, seemly, suitable, unisonous, useful). (various references)

Swedish

vederbörande (concerned, the person concerned), tillbörlig (decent, due), ordentlig (careful, glorious, good, neat, orderly, regular, Square, tidy). (various references)

Turkish

yerinde (answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, condign, conformable, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitted, grandiloquent, in, in one's stead, in place, just, legitimate, on the premises, opportune, Pat, pertinent, pointed, pro-, pursuant, rightful, snappy, sound, suitable, valid, well, well-judged), uygun (acceptable, accommodating, adaptable, adequate, advisable, agreeable, allowable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, calculated, comely, commensurate, comparative, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consistent, convenient, cool, correct, decent, done, due, eligible, enjoyable, equal, expedient, fair, fair enough, favorable, favourable, felicitous, fine, fit, fitted, fitting, for, in place, keen, likely, lovely, made to order, matching, meet, nice, opportune, permitting, pertinent, pleasant, propitious, proportional, prosperous, pursuant, relevant, ripe, seasonable, seemly, Square, suitable, suited, tailormade, up to, well, well-matched), terbiyeli (blushing, civil-spoken, decent, decorous, mannerly, polite, seasoned, well mannered, well-behaved), tam (absolute, accomplished, according to cocker, accurate, all out, at the time, bang, bang on, blank, clear, complete, consummate, correct, dead, desperately, downright, due, engrained, entire, even, exact, exactly, factual, full, full complement, fully, holo-, implicit, ingrained, intact, integral, intimate, just, literal, mathematical, on time, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plunk, precise, precisely, prize, prompt, punctual, rank, right, rightdown, root and branch, round, sharp, sheer, simple, slap bang, slick, solid, spot-on, Square, stark, straight, strict, the very, thorough, thoroughgoing, to a t, true, trueborn, unalloyed, unambiguous, unmitigated, unredeemed, unreserved, utter, very, whole), münasip (agreeable, apposite, congruous, decorous, meet, Pat, pertinent, suitable, tailormade), iyice (clean, complete, completely, fair, fully, goodish, jolly well, over, properly, quite, rather good, thoroughly, tolerable, tolerably, well, wide, widely), gerçek (actual, actualities, authentic, bona fide, dinkum, earnest, exact, fact, factual, for real, genuine, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, intrinsic, literal, low down, lowdown, pucka, pukka, real, reality, right, rightful, sincere, sooth, sterling, straight out, substantial, tangible, the real, the true, troth, true, truth, truthful, unfeigned, veracious, veracity, veritable, Verity, very, virtual), doğru dürüst (properly), doğru (above board, according to cocker, according to hoyle, accurate, aright, authentic, cheese, correct, direct, due, exact, exactly, fair, fair enough, faithful, for, guileless, honest, honest injun, just, on time, ortho-, orthodox, precisely, prompt, punctual, quite so, right, righteous, sincere, spot-on, Square, straight, straight as a die, straight line, the right, the thing, the truth, thro, through, thru, true, truthful, up to, upstanding), adamakıllı (greatly, head over heels, over, Plumb, profound, properly, regularly, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, wide, widely, with a vengeance), özel (ad hoc, closet, distinctive, esoteric, especial, exclusive, express, extraordinary, individual, intimate, particular, peculiar, personal, private, privy, proprietary, self, sole, special, specific, state, very). (various references)

Ukrainian

справжний (apparent, arrant), чудовий (a, admirable, adorable, ambrosial, bang up, beautiful, brave, bright, bully, capital, champion, charming, clinking, consummate, crack, Dandy, delectable, delicious, delightful, eminent, excellent, fine, flawless, glorious, goluptious, gorgeous, immense, magnific, magnifical, magnificent, noble, notable, noted, palmary, peachy, posh, prime, princely, providential, ravishing, remarkable, resplendent, ripping, something like, sovereign, spiffing, superb, super-duper, topping, undeniable, way out, wizard, wonderful), годящий (available), відповідний (accordant, adequate, agreeable, answerable, applicable, apposite, appropriate, coincident, coincidental, commensurate, concordant, conformable, congruent, congruous, consistent, correspondent, corresponding, fit, homologous, mutual, pertinent, relational, relative, respective, suitable, worthy), властивий (appropriate, built in, congenial, facultative, immanent, incident, incidental, inherent, innate, native, resident), власний (own, peculiar, privy, self), підхожий (acceptable, adapted, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, apt, befitting, canny, eligible, feasible, fit, fitting, good, likely, meet, o.k., ok, okay, okey, opportune, qualified, suitable), правильний (accurate, correct, normal, orderly, pure, regular, right, straight, true, truthful, unerring, well formed), пристойний (becoming, decent, decorous, plausible, presentable, white). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thích hợp đúng, thích đáng (adequate, apposite, appropriate, aptly, due, duly, pertinent), thực sự (actually, arrant, veritable, virtual, virtually), ra trò đúng đắn, hợp thức (properly), hợp lệ (properly, regulation, statutably), bản thân riêng, đúng mực (decorous, regular, well-balanced), đúng đắn (accurate, advised, errorless, just, straight), đúng (actually, apt, aptly, aright, correct, due, exact, fair, fitting, just, precise, precisely, properly, right, rightly, true, very), đích thân, đích thực (verily), đích thị, đích đáng (just, telling). (various references)

Welsh

priodol (apposite, appropriate), priod (married, own, spouse), gweddus (becoming, decent, seemly), cymwys (apt, exact, fit, suitable), cymesur (proportionate), addas (apposite, fitting, suitable). (various references)

apta, aptas, apti, apto, aptum, aptus, commodus, decôrum, decebat, decent, decet, decora, decoram, decoraque, decoras, decori, decoris, decoros, decorum, decorus, digna, dignam, dignas, digne, digni, dignis, digno, dignos, dignum, dignus, idoneam, idonei, idoneos, idoneus, iusta, iustae, iustam, iustaque, iustas, iuste, iusti, iustior, iustiorem, iustis, iusto, iustorum, iustos, iustum, iustus, legitima, legitimam, legitime, legitimis, legitimum, legitiums, oporteat, oportebat, oporteret, oportet, oportuerat, oportuerit, oportuit, proprius, rectas, rectorum, rectus, verus. (various references)

kasher. (various references)

dâitîm, rathwya. (various references)

gecynde, gerisenlic. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "proper": properdin, properdins, properer, properest, properly, properness, propernesses, propers, propertied, properties, property, propertyless, propertylessness, propertylessnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "proper": improper. (additional references)

Words containing "proper": improperly, improperness, impropernesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Proper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: poper, Poropak, porper, praper, preopria, preperm, prepper, prepreg, prober, procera, prodere, proferr, prompert, prope, propera, properer, propero, propers, propert, propex, propi, propo, proporia, proppa, proppe, proppen, propper, prop'r, propre, propret, Propser, propter, proter, prover, pyropes, pyr-pur. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: repro, roper.

-2 letters: pepo, perp, pope, pore, prep, prop, repo, repp, rope.

-3 letters: err, ope, ore, pep, per, pop, pro, rep, roe.

-4 letters: er, oe, op, or, pe, re.

+1 letter: cropper, dropper, propers, prosper.

+2 letters: approver, croppers, droppers, improper, prompter, properer, properly, property, proposer, prospers, stropper, superpro.

+3 letters: approvers, cartopper, oppressor, paperwork, preceptor, preemptor, prompters, pronephra, propeller, propellor, properdin, properest, proposers, propretor, propriety, prospered, purported, reapprove, stroppers, stroppier, superport, superpros, supporter.

+4 letters: airdropped, carpophore, carpospore, cartoppers, dropperful, eyedropper, froghopper, improperly, oppressors, paperboard, paperworks, peppercorn, peremptory, porphyries, pourparler, preapprove, preceptors, preceptory, preemptors, preemptory, preparator, preportion, preprocess, preprogram, pronephric, pronephroi, pronephros, propellers, propellors, properdins, properness, propertied, properties, prophesier, propounder, propraetor, propretors, proprietor, prospector, prospering, prosperity, prosperous, protreptic, rapporteur, reapproved, reapproves, rockhopper, sporophore, supergroup, superports, superpower, supporters, suppressor, treehopper, worshipper.