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Definition of Proper

Proper Belonging to one; one's own; individual. Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites. Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress. Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome. Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city. Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper. Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good. Related Definitions: All, And, Animal, Any, Appearance, Appellative, Appropriate, As, Becoming, Befitting, Belonging, But, Called, Charge, City, Color, Common, Considered, Constitution, Decent, Degree, Dress, Element, Essential, Every, Fish, Fit, For, Formed, Garden, Good, Great, Greece, Handsome, Hence, His, Has, In, Individual, Is, Name, Natural, Nature, Not, Object, Of, One, Opposed, Or, Own, Particular, Peculiar, Pertaining, Proper, Properly, Qualities, Respect, Right, Rightly, Said, So, Species, Strictly, Suitable, The, To, Used, Very, Water, Well, Whole

Proper Quotations Time puts things in proper perspective. Cameron Crowe Art is the proper task of life. Friedrich Nietzsche Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Oscar Wilde The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses. Thomas Jefferson Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. Nicolaus Copernicus

Proper Translations proper in Afrikaans is juis, behoorlik proper in Danish is rigtig proper in Dutch is fatsoenlijk, betamelijk, behoorlijk proper in Finnish is oikea proper in French is convenable proper in Latin is decorus, verus, idoneus, decet, commodus, iustus proper in Portuguese is apropriado proper in Spanish is recto

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