All 8 Uses
appropriate
in
Cat's Eye
(Edited)
- It used to be sedate wood-rimmed glass counters, with gloves in standard models, appropriate wristwatches, accent scarves in floral prints.
p. 123.1appropriate = suitable (fitting)
- It manages to suggest both crotches and crocheting, both of which seem appropriate.
p. 248.1
- It's cruel and appropriate; we snort with laughter.
p. 253.1
- Inappropriate words slip out of her. After we've finished our hamburgers and fries she turns to the boys and says brightly, "Are you sufficiently sophonsified?" and they gape at her.
p. 267.9inappropriate = improperstandard 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.
- She fixes them up with paint and collage and steel wool stuck on at appropriate places.
p. 379.2appropriate = suitable (fitting)
- In practice this means that she appropriates the MEAT LIKE YOU LIKE IT sign and incorporates it into one of her constructions,
p. 380.9 *appropriates = takes without asking
- I think maybe I will flirt with someone, someone inappropriate, just to see what could happen; but there aren't many possibilities, because there aren't many men.
p. 382.9inappropriate = unsuitable (not fitting)standard 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.
- To him it seems appropriate, to me eccentric: it's a defiance of convention, but of a convention he's never heard of.
p. 417.2 *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
- (4) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)