appropriate
adjective
verb (used with object), ap·pro·pri·at·ed, ap·pro·pri·at·ing.
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relevant, useful, convenient, applicable, apt, fitting, good, proper, pertinent, correct, opportune, true, apportion, devote, earmark, allot, disburse, embezzle, misappropriate, borrowExamples from the Web for appropriate
Contemporary Examples of appropriate
The art of leadership is the ability to move between the two poles at the appropriate times.
It is indeed the human being's natural and appropriate response to danger.
The names of the three girls were entered into the appropriate databases, and their passports were flagged.
But the ambiguity of “appropriate disciplinary action” is what is so frightening about the smoking ban.
An appropriate level of concern was evident everywhere; panic was nowhere to be found.
Historical Examples of appropriate
I understood precisely why the name of 'Reddy' was appropriate to you.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
The dining-hall was decorated for the occasion with appropriate portraits.
Aside to audience in comic despair, with appropriate gesture.
The Dramatic Values in PlautusWilton Wallace Blancke
But he did not have the work acted; it was sung in costume with a background of appropriate scenery.
HandelEdward J. Dent
They were appropriate to the place, and had been beautifully set to music.
Alice, or The Mysteries, CompleteEdward Bulwer-Lytton