All 3 Uses of
appropriate
in
Girl Interrupted
- In addition, these people often have inappropriately intense anger with frequent displays of temper or recurrent physical fights.†
inappropriately = in a manner unsuitable (not fitting) to a particular situationstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inappropriately means not and reverses the meaning of appropriately. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
- There were more pernicious results as well: selfloathing, alternating with "inappropriately intense anger with frequent displays of temper..."†
- What would have been an appropriate level of intensity for my anger at feeling shut out of life?
*appropriate = suitable (fitting)
Definitions:
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(1)
(appropriate as in: it is appropriate) suitable (fitting) for a particular situation
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(2)
(appropriate as in: appropriate from their culture) to take without asking -- often without right
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(3)
(appropriate as in: Congress will appropriate funds) to set aside for a particular use