Both Uses of
appropriate
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- But as it is the boots are quite inappropriate to Kemmerich's circumstances, whereas Miller can make good use of them. Kemmerich will die...
Chpt 2inappropriate = not suitable or not fittingstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriate means not and reverses the meaning of appropriate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- So I speak to him and say to him: "Comrade, I did not want to kill you." If you jumped in here again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstraction that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response.
Chpt 9 *appropriate = suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
Definition:
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(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation