Adjective: proper pró-pu(r)
- Marked by suitability, rightness or appropriateness
"proper medical treatment"; "proper manners"
- Appropriate for a condition, purpose, occasion or a person's character, needs
"everything in its proper place";
- right
- Having all the qualities typical of the thing specified
"wanted a proper dinner, not just a snack"; "he finally has a proper job"
- Limited to the thing specified
"the city proper"; "his claim is connected with the deed proper"
- Thorough
"had a proper workout";
- good
- Completely and absolutely
"The room was proper full of people";
- thoroughly, soundly, good [N. Amer]
See also: appropriate, becoming, bluenosed [US, informal], comely [archaic], comme il faut, complete, correct, correctitude, decent, decorous, done [Brit], fitting, halal, kosher, priggish, prim, prissy, properness, propriety, prudish, puritanical, real, right, seemly, specific, square-toed [archaic], straightlaced, straight-laced, straitlaced, strait-laced, tight-laced, uptight [informal], victorian
Antonym: improper
Encyclopedia: Proper, Kelly