appropriate

1. 1.

   suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc

   “a book not appropriate for children”

   “a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity”

   “it seems that an apology is appropriate”

   Antonymsinappropriate

   Similarbefittinggrade-appropriatepatproper

Other forms of appropriate

past tense

appropriated·

present participle

appropriating·

third person

appropriates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appropriate

What does appropriate mean?

appropriate means "give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appropriate?

appropriate has 4 syllables: ap-pro-pri-ate. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /əˈpɹoʊpɹiət/.

What is another word for appropriate?

Close synonyms include allow, earmark, set aside, reserve, capture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of appropriate?

The recorded antonyms are inappropriate.

Is appropriate a common word?

appropriate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.