All 6 Uses of
appropriate
in
In Cold Blood
- Wearing an open-necked shirt (borrowed from Mr. Meier) and blue jeans rolled up at the cuffs, he looked as lonely and inappropriate as a seagull in a wheat field.†
Chpt 4inappropriate = unsuitable (not fitting) for a particular situationstandard 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.
- The inappropriate force of his anger and lack of ability to control or channel it reflect a primary weakness of personality structure.... In addition to these traits, the subject shows mild early signs of a disorder of his thought processes.†
Chpt 4 *
- Even inappropriate.†
Chpt 4
- Inevitable, and appropriate.†
Chpt 2
- That settled, they then selected a gaudy array of jackets and slacks regarded as appropriate for what was to be, according to Dick, a Florida honeymoon.†
Chpt 2
- The word, faintly present upon a sun-warped sign, seemed appropriate to the place it publicized, which was, as Harold Nye wrote in his official K.B.I. report, "run-down and shabby, the lowest type of hotel or rooming house."†
Chpt 3
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