Definition for Appropriate:

• Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.

Synonyms for Appropriate:

• adj.

  •acceptable (adjective)
  • allowable,
  • satisfactory,
  • passable,
  • adequate,
  • favorable,
  • suitable,
  • acceptable,
  • tolerable,
  • admissible,
  • permissible.
  •advisable (adjective)
  • tactical,
  • Recommendable.
  •correct (adjective)
  • righteous.
  •opportune (adjective)
  • auspicious,
  • opportune,
  • expedient,
  • seasonable,
  • convenient,
  • propitious,
  • felicitous,
  • timely.
  •perfect (adjective)
  • perfect.
  •proper (adjective)
  • proper,
  • apropos,
  • seemly,
  • polite,
  • right,
  • fitting,
  • correct,
  • suitable,
  • prim,
  • tasteful.
  •relevant (adjective)
  • apt,
  • logical,
  • pointed,
  • relevant,
  • suitable,
  • germane,
  • apposite,
  • to the point,
  • pertinent,
  • apropos,
  • applicable,
  • fitting.
  •rightful (adjective)
  • rightful.
  •suitable (adjective)
  • deserved,
  • apropos,
  • fit,
  • just,
  • fitting,
  • relevant,
  • rightful,
  • convenient,
  • becoming,
  • befitting,
  • felicitous,
  • suited,
  • pertinent,
  • useful,
  • proper,
  • right,
  • desired,
  • opportune,
  • appurtenant,
  • adapted,
  • due,
  • on the nose,
  • good,
  • true,
  • on the button,
  • germane,
  • tailor-made,
  • correct,
  • apt,
  • geared to,
  • seemly,
  • suitable,
  • well-suited,
  • belonging,
  • applicable,
  • congruous.
  •utilizable (adjective)
  • beneficial,
  • utilitarian,
  • versatile,
  • functional,
  • usable,
  • reusable,
  • effective,
  • multipurpose,
  • employable,
  • fitting,
  • suitable,
  • applied,
  • practicable,
  • available,
  • handy,
  • advantageous,
  • commodious,
  • utilizable,
  • serviceable,
  • expedient,
  • all-purpose,
  • at hand,
  • convenient,
  • useful,
  • helpful,
  • instrumental,
  • effectual,
  • practical,
  • applicable.

• n.

  •
  • earn,
  • recover.
  •
  • happy,
  • meet,
  • well-chosen,
  • perfect,
  • becoming,
  • tailor-made.
  •
  • good,
  • requisition,
  • encroach,
  • rob.
  •
  • just,
  • deserved,
  • plunder,
  • mug,
  • run away with,
  • walk off with,
  • merited,
  • loot,
  • rightful.
  •appropriate (noun)
  • capture,
  • pat,
  • fit,
  • allow,
  • apt,
  • in order,
  • advantageous,
  • due,
  • congruous,
  • reserve,
  • apposite,
  • expedient,
  • proper,
  • suitable,
  • harmonious,
  • conquer,
  • usurp,
  • seize,
  • suited,
  • pertinent,
  • befitting,
  • take over,
  • right,
  • earmark,
  • congruent.

• v.

  •acquire (verb)
  • preempt.
  •borrow (verb)
  • borrow,
  • obtain.
  •cognition (verb)
  • earmark,
  • reserve,
  • allow.
  •possession (verb)
  • conquer,
  • seize,
  • capture.
  •set aside; allocate (verb)
  • apportion,
  • disburse,
  • budget,
  • allow,
  • assign,
  • earmark,
  • allot,
  • reserve,
  • appoint,
  • devote.
  •steal (verb)
  • embezzle,
  • filch,
  • clap,
  • lift,
  • grab,
  • hijack,
  • pocket,
  • cop,
  • usurp,
  • misappropriate,
  • get hands on,
  • liberate,
  • moonlight requisition,
  • grab hold of,
  • snatch,
  • borrow,
  • secure,
  • pilfer,
  • glom on to,
  • confiscate,
  • take over,
  • annex,
  • get fingers on,
  • swipe.
  •take (verb)
  • capture,
  • impound,
  • get,
  • acquire,
  • annex,
  • harvest,
  • abduct,
  • confiscate,
  • collect,
  • nab,
  • amass,
  • gather,
  • monopolize,
  • take,
  • grab,
  • commandeer,
  • walk off with,
  • reap,
  • usurp,
  • levy,
  • bag,
  • help oneself to,
  • procure,
  • deprive,
  • catch.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • fair,
  • pocket,
  • proportionate,
  • recover,
  • topical,
  • garnish,
  • absorb,
  • relevance,
  • proportional,
  • distribute,
  • salient,
  • special.
  •
  • adopt,
  • accordingly,
  • earn,
  • dedicate,
  • tailor-made,
  • merited,
  • becoming,
  • allocate,
  • material.
  •
  • due,
  • rightful,
  • designate.
  •
  • assign.
  •
  • just.
  •
  • happy.
  •
  • accept,
  • good.
  •apportion
  • allot.
  •arrogate
  • Accroach.
  •convert
  • transmute,
  • transubstantiate,
  • transmogrify.
  •cut off
  • intercept.
  •distinctive
  • characteristic.
  •employ
  • utilize.
  •encroach
  • infringe.
  •forge
  • plagiarize.
  •merited
  • deserved.
  •plunder
  • misappropriate.
  •receive
  • come into.
  •rob
  • pilfer.
  •specific
  • particular.
  •steal
  • purloin,
  • lift,
  • run off with,
  • steal,
  • swipe.
  •take
  • take.
  •take over
  • usurp.
  •utilize
  • put to use.
  •Other relevant words:
  • defraud,
  • favourable,
  • claim,
  • denominate,
  • thieve,
  • prosperous,
  • ramp,
  • compatible,
  • party,
  • let have,
  • precise,
  • conformist,
  • absolutely,
  • exactly,
  • preempt,
  • transubstantiate,
  • detain,
  • prepossess,
  • golden,
  • feasible,
  • approved,
  • endure,
  • pay out,
  • well,
  • Comme Il Faut,
  • walk off,
  • relevance,
  • sane,
  • use,
  • affined,
  • desired,
  • Involving,
  • restrict,
  • encouraging,
  • advisable,
  • diplomatic,
  • touch for,
  • facultative,
  • take possession of,
  • lot,
  • of help,
  • becoming,
  • odds-on,
  • justifiable,
  • press,
  • accurately,
  • pat,
  • heist,
  • attach,
  • delectable,
  • take over,
  • several,
  • snare,
  • consign,
  • goodness,
  • especial,
  • rather,
  • forfeit,
  • lucky,
  • embrace,
  • competence,
  • delicious,
  • exact,
  • predigest,
  • routine,
  • And,
  • readily,
  • representative,
  • achievement,
  • satisfying,
  • deal out,
  • definite,
  • convey,
  • rightful,
  • partial,
  • judicious,
  • congruous,
  • act,
  • according,
  • decency,
  • when,
  • clutch,
  • moderately,
  • sophisticated,
  • depute,
  • abstract,
  • fully,
  • requisite,
  • crib,
  • make away with,
  • purloin,
  • divide up,
  • in place,
  • belonging,
  • Sortable,
  • understandable,
  • suspend,
  • good,
  • cabbage,
  • ad rem,
  • identify,
  • extort,
  • snatch,
  • disburse,
  • allocate,
  • on the button,
  • fitness,
  • to the purpose,
  • possess,
  • designate,
  • buy,
  • consequent,
  • prepared,
  • justly,
  • due,
  • assign,
  • deft,
  • providential,
  • tactful,
  • ethical,
  • peculate,
  • innocent,
  • competent,
  • absorb,
  • dispossess,
  • steal,
  • take it all,
  • benignity,
  • buy out,
  • lift,
  • origin,
  • favourite,
  • suitably,
  • promptly,
  • exemplary,
  • decorous,
  • rob,
  • savoury,
  • pilfer,
  • fairly,
  • select,
  • pragmatical,
  • hoist,
  • snitch,
  • infringe,
  • open door,
  • attuned,
  • extract,
  • harmonious,
  • detail,
  • idiomatic,
  • affect,
  • grant,
  • allot,
  • withdraw,
  • sage,
  • urbane,
  • remove,
  • beguile,
  • significant,
  • suitability,
  • sequester,
  • unique,
  • Fitted,
  • seem,
  • sensible,
  • dispense,
  • proportional,
  • merited,
  • self-righteous,
  • tactical,
  • nick,
  • place,
  • During,
  • deprive of,
  • delegate,
  • happy,
  • hire,
  • put away,
  • chic,
  • liberate,
  • raid,
  • ability,
  • win,
  • take on,
  • adopt,
  • mellifluous,
  • conscript,
  • righteous,
  • wise,
  • fate,
  • Accroach,
  • politic,
  • well-advised,
  • shoplift,
  • intercept,
  • scramble for,
  • respective,
  • fashionable,
  • pre-empt,
  • ransack,
  • ladylike,
  • handsome,
  • good for,
  • related,
  • square,
  • rustle,
  • fetching,
  • snaffle,
  • correspondingly,
  • garnish,
  • accept,
  • perfect,
  • considerably,
  • worthy,
  • enamour,
  • pocket,
  • copy,
  • modesty,
  • crook,
  • fittingly,
  • undertake,
  • intrinsic,
  • qualified,
  • rule,
  • acceptably,
  • in order,
  • indent,
  • decently,
  • tag,
  • plagiarise,
  • assume,
  • pretend,
  • annexe,
  • thoroughly,
  • scramble,
  • traditional,
  • bear,
  • provide for,
  • topical,
  • grasp,
  • enamor,
  • loot,
  • orderly,
  • supportive,
  • overqualified,
  • encroach,
  • punctilious,
  • assimilate,
  • digest,
  • conquer,
  • comely,
  • transmogrify,
  • meshing,
  • best,
  • moonlight requisition,
  • consonant,
  • reserve,
  • get hold of,
  • just right,
  • pleasurable,
  • welcome,
  • fair,
  • get hands on,
  • duly,
  • adequately,
  • aptness,
  • sit on,
  • Beautifying,
  • accordingly,
  • ration,
  • Fructuous,
  • sponge,
  • choice,
  • perfectly,
  • worthwhile,
  • salient,
  • requisition,
  • condign,
  • mark off,
  • individual,
  • parcel out,
  • Impropriate,
  • relieve,
  • name,
  • let,
  • Consummately,
  • accomplishment,
  • adapted,
  • respectable,
  • adequacy,
  • book,
  • mug,
  • detach,
  • plagiarize,
  • mooch,
  • normal,
  • Pertaining,
  • well-chosen,
  • point,
  • normative,
  • boost,
  • purchase,
  • properly,
  • discreet,
  • elegant,
  • equivalent to,
  • repress,
  • devote,
  • distinguished,
  • pinch,
  • faultless,
  • partition,
  • utilize,
  • derive from,
  • overrun,
  • well-suited,
  • make use of,
  • stamp down,
  • pick one's brains,
  • repeat,
  • precisely,
  • consistent,
  • typical,
  • seize,
  • true to form,
  • method,
  • palatable,
  • correctly,
  • enslave,
  • dignified,
  • suppress,
  • convert,
  • commensurate,
  • permit,
  • pillage,
  • strictly,
  • pragmatic,
  • secure,
  • banausic,
  • clean,
  • rightly,
  • of service,
  • tailored,
  • dip into,
  • prudent,
  • expected,
  • inspired,
  • veteran,
  • budget,
  • tolerate,
  • genteel,
  • eligible,
  • agreeable,
  • nim,
  • experienced,
  • In loco,
  • credit,
  • allow,
  • transmute,
  • espouse,
  • collar,
  • put aside,
  • commit,
  • Idoneous,
  • consecrate,
  • fitly,
  • simulate,
  • quintessential,
  • natural,
  • gratifying,
  • carry away,
  • safe,
  • get away with,
  • dependable,
  • admit,
  • clever,
  • probable,
  • peculiar,
  • set,
  • appropriateness,
  • pirate,
  • refined,
  • informed,
  • convict,
  • selected,
  • inviting,
  • supporting,
  • appropriate to,
  • suiting,
  • reputable,
  • deed,
  • allied,
  • palm,
  • condemn,
  • warranted,
  • material,
  • person in charge,
  • censure,
  • neatly,
  • quality,
  • endorsed,
  • appropriately,
  • pertinence,
  • come into,
  • equitable,
  • elect,
  • nominate,
  • of use,
  • Appertaining,
  • seasoned,
  • liable,
  • endemic,
  • spoil,
  • proportionate,
  • meet,
  • akin,
  • diagnostic,
  • desirable,
  • characteristic,
  • profitable,
  • allow for,
  • accommodative,
  • transfigure,
  • idiosyncratic,
  • Idiocratic,
  • Enhancing,
  • personal,
  • stylish,
  • colonize,
  • enchant,
  • gain,
  • subdue,
  • in character,
  • qualification,
  • quite,
  • draft,
  • do over,
  • mature,
  • rent,
  • certain,
  • unimpeachable,
  • employ,
  • enjoyable,
  • euphonious,
  • walk off with,
  • fitfully,
  • filch,
  • geared,
  • all right,
  • occupy,
  • nip,
  • choose,
  • exceptional,
  • in agreement,
  • open,
  • esoteric,
  • entitled,
  • pleasing,
  • correspondent,
  • earn,
  • invade,
  • rip off,
  • associated,
  • strategic,
  • grade-appropriate,
  • pick,
  • glom on to,
  • share,
  • help oneself to,
  • cause,
  • commensurable,
  • cadge,
  • feat,
  • gentlemanly,
  • Dovetailing,
  • fascinate,
  • possess oneself of,
  • justified,
  • original,
  • propriety,
  • lawful,
  • poach,
  • earmark,
  • symmetrical,
  • unspoiled,
  • recover,
  • made-to-order,
  • Favoured,
  • honourable,
  • private,
  • decent,
  • captivate,
  • attract,
  • mock,
  • decorum,
  • attribute,
  • regard,
  • despoil,
  • in keeping,
  • cop,
  • farm,
  • just,
  • trespass,
  • even if,
  • distinctive,
  • ready,
  • destine,
  • split,
  • Recommendable,
  • agreeably,
  • likely,
  • toothsome,
  • hit it off,
  • order,
  • take into account,
  • schedule,
  • reasonable,
  • dole out,
  • hog,
  • step,
  • honest,
  • conventional,
  • well timed,
  • distribute,
  • prig,
  • forage,
  • nice,
  • swindle,
  • able,
  • true,
  • tailor-made,
  • very,
  • help,
  • dedicate,
  • preoccupy,
  • concordant,
  • eliminate,
  • melodic,
  • to be desired,
  • give up,
  • fortuitous,
  • charming,
  • metabolize,
  • delightful,
  • okay,
  • legitimate,
  • well thought out,
  • expropriate,
  • accord with,
  • correctness,
  • apportion,
  • acknowledge,
  • lovely,
  • honorable,
  • doctrine,
  • synonymous,
  • accommodating,
  • ok,
  • get fingers on,
  • plunder,
  • leave,
  • civil,
  • bum,
  • hook,
  • clap,
  • swipe,
  • run away with,
  • scrounge,
  • adhere,
  • apply,
  • buy up,
  • in tune,
  • ordain,
  • jump a claim,
  • particular,
  • pretty,
  • grab hold of,
  • principle,
  • arrogate,
  • sanctioned,
  • factual,
  • accurate,
  • marked,
  • promising,
  • provide,
  • virtuous,
  • specific,
  • salutary,
  • kin,
  • de rigueur,
  • singular,
  • carry off,
  • deserved,
  • misappropriate,
  • imitate,
  • distinguish,
  • on the nose,
  • reliable,
  • put to use,
  • draw,
  • pleasant,
  • helping,
  • propos,
  • run off with,
  • curb,
  • determinate,
  • acceptable,
  • in harmony,
  • kosher,
  • refer to,
  • congruent,
  • hand-picked,
  • come by,
  • fortunate,
  • single,
  • facilitative,
  • appoint,
  • relative,
  • earned,
  • wrench,
  • walk away with,
  • reproduce,
  • valid,
  • Applying,
  • overmodest,
  • approve,
  • subjugate,
  • good form,
  • lay hold of,
  • bewitch,
  • had better,
  • sufficient,
  • exclusive,
  • well-expressed,
  • inhibit,
  • embezzle,
  • make off with,
  • ripe,
  • well-considered,
  • hijack,
  • find,
  • share in,
  • special,
  • attractive,
  • sequestrate,
  • appurtenant.

Antonyms for Appropriate:

• adj.

  • all
    inappropriate.
  • suitable
    incorrect, unskilled, evil, unseemly, unfit, unfitting, inopportune, unreal, Misbehaving, unsuitable, improper, unsuited, irrelevant, inappropriate, unbecoming.
  • Other antonyms:
    inexpert, incompetent, incapable, unite, incompatible, unsatisfactory, inadequate, conjoin, restore, unfitting, intolerable, unqualified, unskilled, uncongenial, unskillful, Unmeet, add, strengthen, untrained, Unbeseeming, Misbecoming, increase, complete, unacceptable, combine, fill up.

• v.

  • set aside; allocate
    give, bequeath, waste, bestow, return, withhold, keep, refuse, retain, hold, reject.
  • steal
    pay, receive.

Homophones for Appropriate:

• appropriated.