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'proper' - used as an adjective
Synonyms for 'proper'
1. marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness
proper medical treatment
 proper manners
 2. limited to the thing specified
the city proper
 his claim is connected with the deed proper
 3. appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs
everything in its proper place
 4. having all the qualities typical of the thing specified
wanted a proper dinner; not just a snack
 he finally has a proper job
The following are synonyms for 'proper'. Click on any of them to get both Bibliodata's full list of common definitions and a further set of synonyms.
  • propriety
  • properness
  • correctitude
  • properly
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  • appropriate
  • becoming
  • comely
  • comme il faut
  • correct
  • decent
  • decorous
  • fitting
  • halal
  • kosher
  • priggish
  • prim
  • prissy
  • prudish
  • puritanical
  • real
  • right
  • seemly
  • specific
  • square-toed
  • straight-laced
  • straightlaced
  • strait-laced
  • straitlaced
  • tight-laced
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    To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there. - Click here to find out.
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    When Black Jack Ketchum was hung back in 1901 in Clayton New Mexico, the noose actually ended up taking his head off. The head had to be sewn back on so Black Jack could be buried properly.