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1. Marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
   "proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"
    
2. Having all the qualities typical of the thing specified
   "wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack"; "he finally has a proper job"
    
3. Limited to the thing specified
   "the city proper"; "his claim is connected with the deed proper"
    
4. Appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
   "everything in its proper place"
   - right

See also: appropriate, becoming, comely, comme il faut, correct, correctitude, decent, decorous, fitting, halal, kosher, priggish, prim, prissy, properly, properness, propriety, prudish, puritanical, real, right, seemly, specific, square-toed, straightlaced, straight-laced, straitlaced, strait-laced, tight-laced, victorian

Antonym: improper

Encyclopedia: Proper