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.
Definitions
- adjective. Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
- transitive 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.
- transitive 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.
- transitive verb. To make suitable; to suit.
- transitive verb. To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
- noun. A property; attribute.
- verb. 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"
- verb. take possession of by force, as after an invasion
"the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"
"The army seized the town"
- adjective. suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
"a book not appropriate for children"
"a funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity"
Synonyms
allow, earmark, reserve, capture, conquer, seize
Common word forms
appropriated, appropriates, appropriately, appropriating, appropriateness
Words from these letters
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