Dictionary Entry
appropriate
appropriate is a 11-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
11 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 20 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
- 2transitive verb
To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
- 3transitive verb
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
- 4transitive verb
To make suitable; to suit.
- 5transitive verb
To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
- 6noun
A property; attribute.
- 7verb
give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
"I will earmark this money for your research"
"She sets aside time for meditation every day"
- 8verb
take possession of by force, as after an invasion
"the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"
"The army seized the town"
- 9adjective
suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
"a book not appropriate for children"
"a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"
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