Usually means: Not conforming to accepted standards.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word improper:

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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. improper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.
adjective:  Not in keeping with conventional mores or good manners; indecent or immodest.
adjective:  Not according to facts; inaccurate or erroneous.
adjective:  Not consistent with established facts; incorrect.
adjective:  Not properly named; See, for example, improper fraction.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not specific or appropriate to individuals; general; common.
adjective:  (mathematics) Of a complex random variable, correlated with its conjugate.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To appropriate; to limit.
verb:  (obsolete) To behave improperly

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