Word Meanings - PROPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. In proper, individually; privately. Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla , one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. --

Additional info about word: PROPER

Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge. In proper, individually; privately. Jer. Taylor. -- Proper flower or corolla , one of the single florets, or corollets, in an aggregate or compound flower. -- Proper fraction a fraction in which the numerator is less than the denominator. -- Proper nectary , a nectary separate from the petals and other parts of the flower. -- Proper noun , a name belonging to an individual, by which it is distinguished from others of the same class; -- opposed to Ant: common noun; as, John, Boston, America. -- Proper perianth or involucre , that which incloses only a single flower. -- Proper receptacle , a receptacle which supports only a single flower or fructification. (more info) Now learn the difference, at your proper cost, Betwixt true valor and an empty boast. Dryden. 2. Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites. Those high and peculiar attributes . . . which constitute our proper humanity. Coleridge. 3. 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. The proper study of mankind is man. Pope. In Athens all was pleasure, mirth, and play, All proper to the spring, and sprightly May. Dryden. 4. Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome. "Thou art a proper man." Chaucer. Moses . . . was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child. Heb. xi. 23. 5. 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. 6. Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPER)

• Becoming
• Beseeming
• neat
• fit
• proper
• decorous
• comely
• seemly
• befitting
• graceful
• decent
• suitable
• improving
• Befitting
• Fitting
• becoming
• appropriate
• consistent
• expedient
• desirable
• Correct \adj true
• exact
• faultless
• accurate
• right
• Desirable
• Expedient
• advisable
• valuable
• acceptable
• judicious
• beneficial
• profitable
• good
• enviable
• delightful
• Owing
• attributable
• just
• fair
• tit
• owed
• obligatory

Related words: (words related to PROPER)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• ACCURATENESS
  The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness; nicety; precision.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• EXACTOR
  One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands. Jer. Taylor.
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• EXACTING
  Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. "A temper so exacting." T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
• VALUABLENESS
  The quality of being valuable.
• COMELY
  comeliche, AS. cymlic; cyme suitable + 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul
• ATTRIBUTABLE
  Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• EXACTLY
  In an exact manner; precisely according to a rule, standard, or fact; accurately; strictly; correctly; nicely. "Exactly wrought." Shak. His enemies were pleased, for he had acted exactly as their interests required. Bancroft.
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• HOLLOW-HEARTED
  Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• OVERBROW
  To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
• TOWELING
  Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
• SNOWPLOW; SNOWPLOUGH
  An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.
• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• EMBOWER
  To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.