proper

Plural: propers

Adjective

• Suitable, appropriate, or correct for a particular situation.
• marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
  • "proper medical treatment"
  • "proper manners"

Adjective Satellite

• having all the qualities typical of the thing specified
  • "wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack"
  • "he finally has a proper job"
• limited to the thing specified
  • "the city proper"
  • "his claim is connected with the deed proper"
• appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
  • "everything in its proper place"

Adj

• Suitable.
• Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.
• Suitable.
• Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.
• Suitable.
• Such that the preimage of every compact set is compact.
• Suitable.
• Continuous, mapping closed sets to closed sets, and such that the preimage of every point is compact.
• Suitable.
• Separated, of finite type, and universally closed.
• Suitable.
• Such that unique morphism from the variety to k is proper (as above).
• Suitable.
• Such that every closed ball is compact.
• Possessed, related.
• Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter.
• Possessed, related.
• Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.
• Possessed, related.
• In the strict sense; within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).
• Possessed, related.
• Belonging to oneself or itself; own.
• Possessed, related.
• Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.
• Possessed, related.
• Being strictly part of some other thing (not necessarily explicitly mentioned, but of definitional importance), and not being the thing itself.
• Possessed, related.
• Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.
• Accurate, strictly applied.
• Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)
• Accurate, strictly applied.
• Attractive, elegant.
• Accurate, strictly applied.
• In the very strictest sense of the word.
• Accurate, strictly applied.
• Utter, complete.
• Accurate, strictly applied.
• Not being a set.

Adv

• properly; thoroughly; completely.
• properly.

Noun

• A part of the Mass that varies with the liturgical season.
• Something set apart for a special use.
• A part of the Christian liturgy that varies according to the date.

Examples

• A PROPER strategy involves not just scoring, but also blocking your opponent.
• a very proper young lady
• Now that was a proper breakfast.
• Playing "PROPER" might not be a high-scoring word, but it’s definitely valid.
• proper motion — proper left — proper right
• proper subset — proper ideal
• the proper time to plant potatoes
• When I realized I was wearing my shirt inside out, I felt a proper fool.

Synonyms

right, abject, absolute, allowed, apposite, appropriate, apt, arrant, by the book, categoric, categorical, chaste, comely, commensurate, complete, comprehensive, concrete, consummate, continent, conventional, correct, customary, decent, decorous, delicate, desertful, deserving, discrete, downright, duteous, dutiful, expected, expedient, felicitous, fit, fit for purpose, fitting, full, full-blown, full-bore, full-on, gainand, good, halal, homodox, honest, idoneous, in line, individual, innocent, intensive, kosher, likely, meet, mere, meritorious, modest, moral, natural, noble, normal, official, opportune, orthodox, out-and-out, outright, par excellence, particular, peculiar, perfect, polite, proper, properly speaking, prudent, pure, regular, right-minded, righteous, rightful, root and branch, royal, seemly, sensible, sheer, singular, sortable, specific, standard, straight, straight-out, strictly speaking, suitable, sweeping, thorough, thoroughgoing, tidy, total, traditional, true, unadulterated, unalloyed, unattenuated, uncompromising, unconditional, unfettered, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, unrestricted, up to standard, upright, utter, virtuous, well-intentioned, well-mannered, whole-souled, wholesale, worthy

Antonyms

improper, bad, conventional, decent, expected, halal, ill-mannered, impolite, imprudent, inappropriate, incomplete, incorrect, indecent, insensible, kosher, modest, moral, orthodox, partial, proper, regular, seemly, slapdash, standard, suitable, superficial, unseemly, virtuous, wrong

Related Words

appropriate, properly, propriety, PROPERLY

Anagrams of proper