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Synonyms for proper:


adj. suitable

appropriate
convenient
decent
fitting
good
legitimate
useful
able
applicable
apt
becoming
befitting
capable
competent
desired
felicitous
fit
happy
just
meet
qualified
right
suited
true

adj. mannerly, decent

correct
moral
polite
precise
respectable
becoming
befitting
comely
conforming
decorous
demure
genteel
kosher
nice
priggish
prim
prissy
prudish
punctilious
puritanical
refined
right
seemly
solid
square
stone
straight
strait-laced
stuffy

adj. conventional, correct

accurate
exact
formal
precise
usual
absolute
accepted
arrant
complete
consummate
customary
decorous
established
on-target
orthodox
out-and-out
right
unmistaken
utter

adj. individual, personal

special
specific
characteristic
distinctive
idiosyncratic
own
particular
peculiar
private
respective

Examples of uses:

I'll make a proper wifewho can run a proper home. Raise proper children.
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Have you ever given the proper boy the proper smack in his face at the proper moment?
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The way to find a proper nanny is to go about it in a proper fashion.
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A proper kite needs a proper tail, don't you think?
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All these things will be ours but at the proper time and in the proper way.
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He'll do with the proper thingies. You know what I mean? Like a proper game, where the ball is round.
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What they wanted was contained people very proper doing the right thing and living the proper life.
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And I want him to go to a proper school and learn a proper trade.
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proper and dignified? When was I proper and dignified?
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It's proper that you should know about proper behavior.
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Antonyms for proper:

bad