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1. Marked by suitability, 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, purpose, occasion or a person's character, needs
   "everything in its proper place";
   - right
    
5. Thorough
   "had a proper workout";
   - good

1. Completely and absolutely
   - 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, Erik