All 5 Uses of
appropriate
in
The Scarlet Letter
- More frequently, however, on ascending the steps, you would discern—in the entry if it were summer time, or in their appropriate rooms if wintry or inclement weathers—a row of venerable figures, sitting in old-fashioned chairs, which were tipped on their hind legs back against the wall.
Chpt Intr. *appropriate = fitting
- What I saw in him—as evidently as the indestructible ramparts of Old Ticonderoga, already cited as the most appropriate simile—was the features of stubborn and ponderous endurance, which might well have amounted to obstinacy in his earlier days; of integrity, that, like most of his other endowments, lay in a somewhat heavy mass, and was just as unmalleable or unmanageable as a ton of iron ore; and of benevolence which, fiercely as he led the bayonets on at Chippewa or Fort Erie, I take…
Chpt Intr.
- It might be that he lived a more real life within his thoughts than amid the unappropriate environment of the Collector's office.
Chpt Intr.unappropriate = not suitable (not fitting)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappropriate means not and reverses the meaning of appropriate. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky. But this is exceedingly rare. Typically inappropriate is used instead.
- "Thus, a sickness," continued Roger Chillingworth, going on, in an unaltered tone, without heeding the interruption, but standing up and confronting the emaciated and white-cheeked minister, with his low, dark, and misshapen figure,—"a sickness, a sore place, if we may so call it, in your spirit hath immediately its appropriate manifestation in your bodily frame."
Chpt 10appropriate = proper
- It was this profound and continual undertone that gave the clergyman his most appropriate power.
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation