appropriate
Other forms: appropriated; appropriating; appropriates
Something appropriate is correct and fits the situation. A sweater-vest with reindeer on it is appropriate holiday apparel, even if it's totally embarrassing.
The adjective appropriate is used when something is suitable or fitting. It comes from the Latin appropriare, which means "to make something fit, to make something one's own." Going back even further, appropriate is related to the Latin word proprius, "to belong to a person, thing, or group." Another appropriate way to use this word is as a verb, meaning to steal or seize something, the way you'd appropriate your sister's sandwich if she left it sitting near you.
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suitable for a particular person, place, condition, etc.“a book not appropriate for children”“it seems that an apology is appropriate”synonyms:befittingappropriate tograde-appropriatethe quality of ability and work that is appropriate for students in a specified gradepatexactly suited to the occasionaproposof an appropriate or pertinent naturepropermarked by suitability or rightness or appropriatenessantonyms:inappropriatenot suitable for a particular occasion etcunbefittingnot befittingmalaproposof an inappropriate or incorrectly applied natureimpropernot suitable or right or appropriate
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take possession of by force, as after an invasion
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give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
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The full title of this declaration includes a focus on citizenship, and it was published two years after the declaration of rights for men and immediately after the National Assembly of France rejected a proposal to extend the rights to women. With an ironic tone, the writer and activist Olympe de Gouges dedicated it to Marie Antoinette, who -- as a woman -- was not seen as an equal. And, as a queen, she did nothing to promote gender equality (yet she was eventually given a trial and death sentence equal to that of King Louis XVI). While a postscript and form for a social contract are also included, the main structure and contents of this declaration parallel and parody its male counterpart. Compare these lists to hear the echoes. E-text available here. Here are links to our lists on rights: The Declaration of Independence, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Declaration of the Rights of Woman, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights