Synset

marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 34 freq. cnt.: 34

sample sentences

"proper medical treatment"
"proper manners"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

antonym

semantic pointers

also see

appropriate right, correct decent decorous right

attribute

propriety, properness, correctitude

similar to

becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly right, correct correct, right fitting, decent halal kosher straitlaced, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian