| 单词 | appropriate |
| 释义 | appropriate —appropriately, adv. —appropriateness, n. —appropriative /euh proh"pree ay'tiv, -euh tiv/, adj. —appropriativeness, n. —appropriator, n. adj. /euh proh"pree it/; v. /euh proh"pree ayt'/, adj., v., appropriated, appropriating. adj. 1. suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress. 2. belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper: Each played his appropriate part. v.t. 3. to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university. 4. to take to or for oneself; take possession of. 5. to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself. 6. to steal, esp. to commit petty theft. [1515-25; < LL appropriatus made one's own (ptp. of appropriare), equiv. to L ap- AP-1 + propri(us) one's own + -atus -ATE1] Syn. 1. befitting, apt, meet, felicitous, suited, proper, due, becoming, pertinent. 3. apportion, allocate, assign. Ant. 1. unsuitable, inept. |
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