Usually means: Suitable or proper in circumstances.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word appropriate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. appropriate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. appropriate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. appropriate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. appropriate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. appropriate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Appropriate, appropriate: Wordnik
  7. appropriate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. appropriate: Wiktionary
  9. appropriate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. appropriate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. appropriate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. appropriate: Dictionary.com
  13. appropriate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. appropriate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Appropriate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Appropriate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. appropriate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. appropriate: Rhymezone
  19. appropriate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. appropriate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. appropriate: Free Dictionary
  22. appropriate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. appropriate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. appropriate: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. appropriate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriate: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriate: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. appropriate: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
adjective:  Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
adjective:  (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
adjective:  (of an action or thing) Morally good; positive.
adjective:  (of an action or thing) pleasant;
verb:  (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
verb:  (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
verb:  (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.

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