appropriate

Verb

• give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
• take possession of by force, as after an invasion
• To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
• To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
• To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
• To make suitable to; to suit.

Adjective

• 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"

Adj

• Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
• Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
• Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
• Morally good; positive.
• pleasant;

Examples

• A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
• I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.
• Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
• Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.
• The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
• to appropriate money for the increase of the navy
• While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.

Synonyms

allow, capture, conquer, earmark, reserve, seize, set aside, allocate, apt, felicitous, fitting, help oneself, impropriate, set apart, steal, suitable, take

Antonyms

inappropriate, unhappy

Related Words

appropriation, proper, property