Word Meanings - APPROPRIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words

Additional info about word: APPROPRIATE

Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke. (more info) propriare to appropriate, fr. proprius one's own, proper. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of APPROPRIATE)

• Adopt
• Assume
• select
• affiliate
• take
• elect
• arrogate
• choose
• endorse
• avow
• appropriate
• Applicable
• Available
• ancilla
• convenient
• useful
• pertinent
• conducive
• Apposite
• Suitable
• befitting
• fitting
• timely
• congruous
• consistent
• seasonable
• relevant
• fit
• meet
• adapted
• apropos
• Appurtenant
• Belonging
• connected
• appended
• homogeneous
• attached
• co-ordinate
• concomitant
• Apt
• Fit
• apposite
• clever
• liable
• becoming
• ready
• suitable
• qualified
• prompt
• likely

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of APPROPRIATE)

• Lump
• confound
• sweep

Related words: (words related to APPROPRIATE)

• APPENDANT
  A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance. (more info) 1. Anything attached to another as incidental or subordinate to it.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• ELECTRO-MUSCULAR
  Pertaining the reaction of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ELECTROTYPER
  One who electrotypes.
• ELECTREPETER
  An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
• ENDORSER
  See INDORSER
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• CONNECTOR
  One who, or that which, connects; as: A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments. A device for holding two parts of an electrical conductor in contact.
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• ELECTRO-DYNAMIC; ELECTRO-DYNAMICAL
  Pertaining to the movements or force of electric or galvanic currents; dependent on electric force.
• ELECTRO-CAPILLARITY
  The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• ELECTRONIC
  Of or pertaining to an electron or electrons.
• ELECTRO-BIOLOGIST
  One versed in electro-biology.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• ELECTROLOGY
  That branch of physical science which treats of the phenomena of electricity and its properties.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.