Usually means: Suitably, fittingly for the circumstances.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word appropriately:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. appropriately: Merriam-Webster
  2. appropriately: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. appropriately: Collins English Dictionary
  4. appropriately: Vocabulary.com
  5. Appropriately, appropriately: Wordnik
  6. appropriately: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. appropriately: Wiktionary
  8. Appropriately, appropriately: Dictionary.com
  9. Appropriately: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. appropriately: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. appropriately: Rhymezone
  12. appropriately: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. appropriately: FreeDictionary.org
  14. appropriately: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. appropriately: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. appropriately: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. appropriately: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriately: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriately: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (appropriately)

▸ adverb:  In an appropriate manner; properly; suitably.

Similar:
fittingly, suitably, befittingly, fitly, aptly, adaptly, suitingly, properly, behovingly, appositely, more...

Opposite:
inappropriately, unsuitably, improperly, incorrectly, inaptly

Types:
appropriate, inappropriate, more...

Phrases:
not appropriately, conduct appropriately, addressed appropriately, arranged appropriately, for appropriately, more...

Colors:
    olive,     charcoal,     burgundy,     forest green,     taupe, more...

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Similar:
fittingly, suitably, befittingly, fitly, aptly, adaptly, suitingly, properly, behovingly, appositely, more...

Opposite:
inappropriately, unsuitably, improperly, incorrectly, inaptly

Types:
appropriate, inappropriate, more...

Phrases:
not appropriately, conduct appropriately, addressed appropriately, arranged appropriately, for appropriately, appropriately dressed, more...

Colors:
    olive,     charcoal,     burgundy,     forest green,     taupe, more...



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