appropriate

A2 Topic:Describing Qualities

US /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/ UK /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/ See IPA manual

Freq #3904

Meanings

1

adj
Suitable or right for a particular person, situation, or purpose.

That film is not appropriate for young children.
2

verb
To take something for yourself, usually without permission.

He was accused of appropriating company funds.
3

verb
To set aside money or resources for a particular purpose.

The government appropriated funds for new schools.

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Thesaurus

Synonyms

2 verb · to take something for... help oneself

3 verb · to set aside money or... allocate earmark reserve set aside

More felicitous fitting impropriate steal suitable take

Opposites

inappropriate unhappy

Word family

Forms appropriatedappropriatesappropriating

Derived forms appropesappropriately appropriatenessappropriaterappropriativeappropriatordisappropriatemalappropriatemisappropriatenonappropriatereappropriateunappropriate

Related forms appropriation proper property

Etymology

From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

*preyH- Proto-Indo-European appropriaten Middle English appropriātus Latin

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# appropriate

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** adj, verb
**IPA (US):** /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
**IPA (UK):** /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
**Frequency rank:** 3904

## Meanings
1. Suitable or right for a particular person, situation, or purpose.
2. To take something for yourself, usually without permission.
3. To set aside money or resources for a particular purpose.

## Examples
- That film is not appropriate for young children.
- He was accused of appropriating company funds.
- The government appropriated funds for new schools.

## Synonyms
- earmark
- felicitous
- fitting
- impropriate
- steal
- suitable
- take

## Antonyms
- inappropriate
- unhappy

## Derived Forms
- appropes
- appropriately
- appropriateness
- appropriater
- appropriative
- appropriator
- disappropriate
- malappropriate
- misappropriate
- nonappropriate
- reappropriate
- unappropriate

## Related Forms
- appropriation
- proper
- property

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *preyH-
- Root: appropriaten
- Root: appropriātus

## Etymology
From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).

## AI Etymology
Appropriate comes from Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) plus -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) plus propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) plus -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). The historical line also includes Proto-Indo-European *preyH-.

## Topics
- Describing Qualities

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