proper

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   appropriate for a condition or purpose or occasion or a person's character, needs

   everything in its proper place

2. 2
   adj

   marked by suitability or rightness or appropriateness

   proper medical treatment

3. 3
   adj

   Suitable.

   the proper time to plant potatoes

4. 4
   adj

   Accurate, strictly applied.

   Now that was a proper breakfast.

5. 5
   adv

   properly; thoroughly; completely.

   'I thought it was the American Associated Press.' 'Oh, they are on the track, are they?' 'They to-day, and the Times yesterday. Oh, they are buzzing round proper.'

6. 6
   adv

   properly.

   "But it's not many of us as can make 'em proper."

7. 7
   adj

   limited to the thing specified

8. 8
   adj

   having all the qualities typical of the thing specified

Etymology

From Middle English propre, from Anglo-Norman proper, propre, Old French propre (French: propre), from Latin proprius.