What is another word for proper?
1274 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pɹˈɒpə], [ pɹˈɒpə], [ p_ɹ_ˈɒ_p_ə]
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Similar words for proper:
- accurate (adjective)
- admissible (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- all right (adjective)
- appropriate (adjective)
- apropos (adjective)
- becoming (adjective)
- befitting (adjective)
- bluenosed (adjective)
- capable (adjective)
- ceremonious (adjective)
- characteristic (adjective)
- chaste (adjective)
- compatible (adjective)
- conformable (adjective)
- conforming (adjective)
- congruous (adjective)
- convenient (adjective)
- conventional (adjective)
- conventional, correct (adjective)
- correct (adjective)
- decent (adjective)
- decorous (adjective)
- defensible (adjective)
- demure (adjective)
- de rigueur (adjective)
- deserved (adjective)
- distinctive (adjective)
- eligible (adjective)
- equitable (adjective)
- ethical (adjective)
- expedient (adjective)
- fair (adjective)
- fastidious (adjective)
- felicitous (adjective)
- fit (adjective)
- fitting (adjective)
- formal (adjective)
- full-scale (adjective)
- germane (adjective)
- good (adjective)
- happy (adjective)
- honest (adjective)
- individual (adjective)
- individual, personal (adjective)
- just (adjective)
- justifiable (adjective)
- lawful (adjective)
- legal (adjective)
- legitimate (adjective)
- mannerly, decent (adjective)
- modest (adjective)
- moral (adjective)
- neat (adjective)
- nice (adjective)
- official (adjective)
- old-maidish (adjective)
- on the level (adjective)
- open (adjective)
- open-door (adjective)
- opportune (adjective)
- orthodox (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- perfect (adjective)
- permissible (adjective)
- pertinent (adjective)
- precise (adjective)
- presentable (adjective)
- prim (adjective)
- proper (adjective)
- prudish (adjective)
- punctilious (adjective)
- qualified (adjective)
- reasonable (adjective)
- regular (adjective)
- relevant (adjective)
- respectable (adjective)
- right (adjective)
- right-minded (adjective)
- rightful (adjective)
- rigorous (adjective)
- sedate (adjective)
- self-effacing (adjective)
- sound (adjective)
- special (adjective)
- strait-laced (adjective)
- suitable (adjective)
- timely (adjective)
- trig (adjective)
- true (adjective)
- unjust (adjective)
- useful (adjective)
- veridical (adjective)
- according to Hoyle (noun)
- appropriate (noun)
- comely (noun)
- conventional (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- square-toed (noun)
- straightlaced (noun)
- tight-laced (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- available
- encouraging
- polite
- well-advised
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Proper:
adj.
• accurate (adjective)- dis criminative,
- ultraprecise,
- ultra precise,
- dis-criminating,
- un mistakable,
- matter-of-fact,
- de tailed,
- more careful,
- de finite,
- more defined,
- dis criminating,
- on the money,
- un erring,
- de-finite,
- faithful,
- most ultraprecise,
- on button,
- on nose,
- de fined,
- ex-act,
- un-mistakable,
- on money,
- most defined,
- more ultraprecise,
- ex act,
- severe,
- explicit,
- more concrete,
- un-erring,
- veracious,
- de-fined,
- de-tailed,
- dis-criminative,
- ultra-precise.
- more acceptable,
- most tolerated,
- all owed,
- Tolerated,
- more allowed,
- more concedable,
- more tolerated,
- logical,
- all-owed,
- most concedable,
- most possible,
- most allowed,
- licit.
- un-objectionable,
- most okey-dokey,
- okeydokey,
- more hunkydory,
- swell,
- most hunky dory,
- most okeydokey,
- more hunky-dory,
- un objectionable,
- okey dokey,
- hunkydory,
- unexceptional,
- more okey dokey,
- most hunky-dory,
- more hunky dory,
- most hunkydory,
- more okey-dokey,
- most okey dokey,
- un-exceptional,
- more okeydokey,
- un exceptional.
- be-longing,
- more belonging,
- most belonging,
- be longing,
- more wellsuited,
- de sired,
- wellsuited,
- most appurtenant,
- more appurtenant,
- well suited,
- more desired,
- most wellsuited,
- more well suited,
- most desired,
- tailor made,
- de-sired,
- more well-suited,
- most well suited,
- welltimed,
- most well-suited.
- what doctor ordered,
- most beseeming,
- be seeming,
- be-fitting,
- more beseeming,
- most behooving,
- be-seeming,
- more behooving.
- more efficient,
- more intelligent,
- therest,
- old timer,
- up it,
- more oldtimer,
- up snuff,
- more up,
- more fireball,
- having knowhow,
- like a oneman band,
- up speed,
- on ball,
- most oldtimer,
- like one-man band,
- most old-timer,
- knowing score,
- therer,
- veteran,
- most capable,
- has what takes,
- more talented,
- most dynamite,
- most fireball,
- more suited,
- more old timer,
- having goods,
- most efficient,
- most up,
- most old timer,
- like pistol,
- having right stuff,
- more dynamite,
- more old-timer,
- like a one man band,
- having know how,
- like oneman band,
- like one man band.
- individualistic,
- in-born,
- symptomatic,
- more individualizing,
- more differentiating,
- re presentative,
- in-bred,
- in bred,
- in grained,
- most inbred,
- more inbred,
- in born,
- re-presentative,
- most individualizing,
- most differentiating,
- in-grained.
- most monogamous,
- more monogamous,
- un defiled,
- quietest,
- un-wed,
- un sullied,
- un-defiled,
- un stained,
- un wed,
- most uncontaminated,
- more uncontaminated,
- Quieter,
- re strained,
- un-stained,
- un-affected,
- un-sullied,
- un affected,
- in nocent,
- un blemished,
- un-contaminated,
- impotent,
- in-nocent,
- un contaminated,
- re fined,
- un-blemished,
- re-strained,
- more intemerate,
- re-fined,
- in-experienced,
- most intemerate,
- unwed,
- in experienced.
- likeminded,
- most simpatico,
- more simpatico,
- co operative,
- in groove,
- most reconcilable,
- on the same wavelength,
- like minded,
- more reconcilable.
- formal,
- consist,
- conforming,
- Acquiescing,
- obedient,
- submissive,
- customary,
- Adhering,
- traditional,
- complying,
- mannerly,
- Aping.
- more concordant,
- co incidental,
- more correspondent,
- most correspondent,
- most concordant,
- co-incidental.
- more aiding,
- more timesaving,
- most time-saving,
- helpful,
- most aiding,
- more convenient,
- well planned,
- most time saving,
- more time-saving,
- userfriendly,
- more well planned,
- most wellplanned,
- more well-planned,
- most timesaving,
- time saving,
- more time saving,
- more wellplanned,
- most well planned,
- wellplanned,
- most well-planned.
- habitual,
- more tralatitious,
- prevailing,
- pre-dominant,
- pre dominant,
- well known,
- most ritual,
- more prevalent,
- more ritual,
- stereo typed,
- pre vailing,
- buttondown,
- wellknown,
- stereo-typed,
- pre-vailing,
- most tralatitious.
- on the right track,
- absolute,
- exact,
- out-and-out,
- on target,
- established,
- accurate,
- arrant,
- free of error,
- unmistaken,
- accepted,
- consummate,
- on the nose,
- complete.
- straight arrow,
- on the and up,
- on the up and up,
- re served,
- on up,
- up right,
- on the up,
- de-cent,
- on and up,
- un tarnished,
- on up up,
- de cent,
- up-right,
- un-tarnished,
- re-served,
- on the up up.
- more vindicable,
- most condonable,
- more condonable,
- valid,
- more valid,
- most vindicable,
- most warrantable,
- more warrantable,
- more defendable,
- most defendable.
- most unassertive,
- more unassured,
- un-assuming,
- re tiring,
- un assuming,
- more unassertive,
- un-assured,
- de mure,
- most unassured,
- un assertive,
- unassuming,
- de-mure,
- un assured,
- re-tiring,
- un-assertive.
- dis interested,
- more even-steven,
- more evensteven,
- even handed,
- non partisan,
- most cricket,
- most nondiscriminatory,
- dis-interested,
- more nondiscriminatory,
- dis passionate,
- more uncolored,
- fair-to-middling,
- more cricket,
- most uncolored,
- most even steven,
- un-prejudiced,
- un-biased,
- most even-steven,
- non-discriminatory,
- more fair-to-middling,
- non discriminatory,
- fair square,
- even-steven,
- most fair to middling,
- more even steven,
- un-colored,
- more fair to middling,
- un prejudiced,
- un biased,
- even steven,
- evensteven,
- most fair-to-middling,
- un colored,
- dis-passionate,
- nonpartisan,
- most evensteven.
- more highprincipled,
- more high-principled,
- up-standing,
- most christian,
- most highprincipled,
- more high principled,
- true blue,
- highprincipled,
- more moralistic,
- most high-principled,
- high principled,
- more christian,
- most moralistic,
- most high principled,
- up standing.
- conscientious,
- diligent,
- critical,
- discriminating,
- picky,
- prudish,
- dainty,
- priggish,
- finicky,
- persnickety,
- perspicacious,
- fussy,
- fastidious,
- discerning,
- literal,
- hypercritical,
- careful,
- demanding,
- Qualmish,
- delicate,
- meticulous,
- mincing,
- flawless,
- particular,
- epicurean,
- squeamish,
- methodical,
- choosy,
- scrupulous,
- exacting.
- more well chosen,
- in-spired,
- in spired,
- most well-chosen,
- more wellchosen,
- most telling,
- more telling,
- most wellchosen,
- most well chosen,
- inspired,
- more well-chosen,
- wellchosen.
- most ceremonialistic,
- pre scribed,
- ex-press,
- ex press,
- more formalistic,
- stereo typical,
- stereo-typical,
- most formalistic,
- more ceremonialistic,
- pre-scribed.
- more all-encompassing,
- fullout,
- most allencompassing,
- ex tensive,
- most all-encompassing,
- most full-out,
- un-limited,
- most full out,
- most fullout,
- more allencompassing,
- fullscale,
- allencompassing,
- more full-out,
- wide ranging,
- most wide ranging,
- wideranging,
- more wide-ranging,
- full out,
- more wideranging,
- most wideranging,
- wide-ranging,
- fullblown,
- most all encompassing,
- more full out,
- most wide-ranging,
- more wide ranging,
- fulldress,
- more fullout,
- full scale,
- more all encompassing,
- all encompassing,
- full blown.
- most applicative,
- to point,
- most relating,
- more applicative,
- more applicatory,
- the purpose,
- to purpose,
- more relating,
- most applicatory.
- ingenuous,
- more law-abiding,
- most above-board,
- lay it the line,
- lay it on line,
- more lawabiding,
- reputable,
- lay it line,
- most law abiding,
- highminded,
- un-feigned,
- lay the line,
- lawabiding,
- out-righter,
- most undisguised,
- lay on line,
- high minded,
- most lawabiding,
- out right,
- un disguised,
- out righter,
- like is,
- most law-abiding,
- more law abiding,
- more undisguised,
- more above-board,
- un-disguised,
- more above board,
- law abiding,
- like it is,
- most upfront,
- lay line,
- out rightest,
- out-right,
- more upfront,
- most above board,
- un feigned.
- in divisible,
- in-dividual,
- personalized,
- more unitary,
- most personalized,
- un-usual,
- most unitary,
- more personalized,
- un usual,
- in-divisible,
- in dividual.
- card carrying,
- more enjoined,
- more judged,
- more card carrying,
- most enjoined,
- more legislated,
- most commanded,
- de creed,
- more jurisprudent,
- cardcarrying,
- more legalized,
- more commanded,
- more decreed,
- most decreed,
- more legitimatized,
- most legitimatized,
- most legalized,
- more passed,
- most judged,
- more juridical,
- most enacted,
- more cardcarrying,
- ordained,
- most card-carrying,
- more enacted,
- most legislated,
- more jural,
- most jurisprudent,
- most jural,
- most passed,
- more card-carrying,
- most cardcarrying,
- most juridical,
- de-creed,
- judicial,
- most card carrying.
- granted,
- legislative,
- authorized,
- within the law,
- contractual,
- sure enough,
- precedented,
- sanctionable,
- Enforcible,
- statutory,
- constitutional.
- most well kept,
- more well-kept,
- more well kept,
- well kept,
- most wellkept,
- spick and span,
- more wellkept,
- wellgroomed,
- well groomed,
- neater,
- most well-kept,
- wellkept.
- ex-acting,
- most hairsplitting,
- more hairsplitting,
- well-bred,
- wellbred,
- most finicking,
- well bred,
- ex acting,
- more finicking.
- old-line,
- die hard,
- according to the book,
- well-established,
- buttoned-down,
- by numbers,
- old line,
- doctrinal,
- oldline.
- apropos,
- what the doctor ordered,
- over-nice,
- lay it on the line,
- nondiscriminatory,
- Bluenose,
- not unlikely,
- moralistic,
- ironhanded,
- convenient,
- on the level,
- lawful,
- well chosen,
- ceremonialistic,
- trig,
- just,
- knowing the score,
- moral,
- special,
- over-scrupulous,
- regular,
- having the right stuff,
- Fitted,
- oldtimer,
- salt of the earth,
- full-scale,
- legitimate,
- neat as pin,
- Towardly,
- peculiar,
- well,
- expedient,
- well-chosen,
- no nonsense,
- demure,
- cotton to,
- up to it,
- happy,
- co-operative,
- in good taste,
- providential,
- on up-and-up,
- useful,
- respectable,
- watertight,
- Intemerate,
- fair,
- relevant,
- upfront,
- correct,
- there,
- be fitting,
- of right,
- suitable,
- what you see is what you get,
- puritan,
- jural,
- distinctive,
- in depth,
- simpatico,
- cool as cucumber,
- deserved,
- precise,
- unassured,
- fireball,
- hunky-dory,
- lay on the line,
- nice,
- good enough,
- undisguised,
- juridical,
- square deal,
- uncolored,
- sedate,
- modest,
- fitting,
- equitable,
- timely,
- principled,
- all right,
- in good order,
- concordant,
- strait-laced,
- capable,
- overmodest,
- inerrant,
- right-minded,
- virginal,
- rigorous,
- true,
- in established usage,
- over-modest,
- condonable,
- neat as a pin,
- decorous,
- on same wavelength,
- ceremonious,
- uncontaminated,
- Overscrupulous,
- kosher,
- up to the minute,
- be coming,
- prim and proper,
- non-partisan,
- unitary,
- tralatitious,
- uncluttered,
- eligible,
- like a pistol,
- in the groove,
- conformable,
- timesaving,
- sound,
- conscionable,
- having good vibes,
- cold sober,
- okey-dokey,
- presentable,
- concedable,
- purposive,
- all-encompassing,
- law-abiding,
- in public interest,
- applicatory,
- de rigueur,
- of assistance,
- on up and up,
- cricket,
- not impossible,
- applicative,
- on the up-and-up,
- having know-how,
- time-saving,
- neat,
- reconcilable,
- well timed,
- Stickling,
- seemly,
- laid back,
- orthodox,
- appurtenant,
- ex cathedra,
- in keeping,
- like a one-man band,
- just what was ordered,
- legal,
- all-purpose,
- germane,
- opportune,
- up to speed,
- Unforbidden,
- prim,
- INDEPTH,
- to the purpose,
- to the point,
- good,
- nit-picking,
- chaste,
- punctilious,
- allowable,
- spic-and-span,
- spic and span,
- legit,
- has what it takes,
- up-front,
- well-kept,
- for real,
- in good shape,
- fit,
- conventional,
- of use,
- getting along with,
- in good time,
- becoming,
- decent,
- formalistic,
- meet,
- qualified,
- unprohibited,
- befitting,
- card-carrying,
- open,
- monogamous,
- overconscientious,
- button down,
- reasonable,
- ad rem,
- in sync with,
- ladylike,
- on the button,
- congruous,
- well-planned,
- full-out,
- honest,
- agreeable,
- hunky dory,
- official,
- felicitous,
- Warrantable,
- Vindicable,
- no lie,
- out and out,
- up to snuff,
- defendable,
- justifiable,
- that's the ticket,
- tailormade,
- straitlaced,
- stand-up,
- admissible,
- salt of earth,
- Beseeming,
- unassertive,
- merited,
- matter of fact,
- well-suited,
- blue-nose,
- permissible,
- high-principled,
- straight shooting,
- having the goods,
- compatible,
- Finicking,
- the point.
- most unforbidden,
- un forbidden,
- be-arable,
- be arable,
- more unprohibited,
- un-forbidden,
- un-prohibited,
- most unprohibited,
- more unforbidden,
- un prohibited.
- more spic and span,
- nit picking,
- more uncluttered,
- most blue nose,
- more nit-picking,
- more stickling,
- most nit-picking,
- blue nose,
- goody goody,
- most spic and span,
- most bluenose,
- most stickling,
- more bluenose,
- un cluttered,
- more overmodest,
- more blue nose,
- most blue-nose,
- more nit picking,
- most uncluttered,
- over modest,
- most spic-and-span,
- most overmodest,
- more spic-and-span,
- un-cluttered,
- goodygoody,
- cleanlier,
- more blue-nose,
- cleanliest.
- most overexact,
- more simpering,
- up tight,
- most simpering,
- over exact,
- more overnice,
- up-tight,
- overexact,
- most overnice,
- narrowminded,
- overnice,
- more overexact,
- over nice,
- narrow minded,
- over-exact.
- most conscionable,
- most overscrupulous,
- more conscionable,
- good eye,
- more overscrupulous,
- over scrupulous,
- over-conscientious,
- most overconscientious,
- more overconscientious,
- over conscientious.
- more inerrant,
- more standup,
- un doubted,
- standup,
- in-errant,
- in-fallible,
- more stand up,
- in-dubitable,
- most stand up,
- in errant,
- un-doubted,
- more watertight,
- most stand-up,
- most standup,
- in fallible,
- more stand-up,
- most inerrant,
- most watertight,
- in dubitable.
- in-flexible,
- in-clement,
- un-compromising,
- more ironhanded,
- most unpermissive,
- in temperate,
- un-permissive,
- in clement,
- in-temperate,
- most ironhanded,
- unpermissive,
- in flexible,
- un compromising,
- more unpermissive,
- un permissive.
- GOEST,
- all there,
- proven,
- goer,
- holding up in wash,
- hanging together,
- well advised,
- standing up,
- holding together,
- got it together.
- competent,
- more suitable,
- all-right,
- able,
- au fait,
- in character,
- user friendly,
- desired,
- applicable,
- copacetic.
- in nick time,
- up to date,
- in nick of time,
- in the nick time,
- nower,
- nowest,
- more towardly,
- most towardly.
n.
-
•
- unadulterated,
- utter,
- thorough,
- pure,
- resounding,
- total,
- outright.
-
•
- due.
-
•
- plain,
- prissy,
- victorian,
- puritanical.
- in-disputable,
- as it should bes,
- by number,
- by book,
- in disputable,
- as should bes,
- indisputables,
- according-hoyle,
- by the number,
- as should be.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- incorruptible,
- heaven-sent,
- smarmy,
- blameless,
- right-thinking,
- suave,
- Simpering,
- spotless,
- suitably,
- made-to-order,
- high-minded,
- attractive,
- marriageable,
- bluenosed,
- unblemished,
- fit for purpose,
- old-maidish,
- commensurate,
- prime,
- unsullied,
- adapted,
- conveniently,
- pristine,
- mannered,
- unimpeachable,
- obsequious,
- duly,
- morally,
- conformist,
- hospitable,
- approved,
- clean-living.
-
•
- ideal,
- honorable,
- virtuous,
- properly,
- suited,
- ethical,
- wholesome,
- correspondent,
- possible,
- rightful,
- apt,
- elevated,
- tailor-made,
- ready,
- unworldly.
- courtly,
- courteous,
- well-mannered,
- gentlemanly,
- nicely,
- civilly,
- well-brought-up,
- civil,
- gallant,
- gracious,
- chivalrous,
- civilized,
- politely,
- graceful,
- urbane.
- marked,
- feasible,
- right smart,
- distinguished,
- okay,
- seasonable,
- likely,
- endemic,
- monstrous,
- grammatical,
- blank,
- elegant,
- decided,
- mortal,
- precious,
- singular,
- grammatic,
- very,
- typical,
- pretty,
- so,
- exceedingly,
- gallows,
- Sortable,
- according to hoyle,
- real,
- worthy,
- pronounced,
- representative,
- mortally,
- stark,
- just right,
- positive,
- quintessential,
- acceptable,
- jolly,
- alright,
- parlous,
- quite,
- only too.
Paraphrases for Proper:
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Equivalence
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Coordinating conjunction
appropriate.
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Determiner
appropriate.
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Preposition or subordinating conjunction
appropriate.
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Adjective
appropriate.
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Proper noun, singular
appropriate.
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Noun, singular or mass
appropriate.
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Verb, base form
appropriate.
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Wh-determiner
appropriate.
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Coordinating conjunction
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Independent
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Determiner
correct.
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Adjective
acceptable, actual, advisable, apposite, apt, authentic, befitting, careful, cheap, commensurate, competent, conducive, convenient, correct, corresponding, decent, desirable, dignified, efficient, expedient, favorable, fitting, full-fledged, good, ideal, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, incorrect, insufficient, judicious, justifiable, justified, legitimate, meaningful, normal, opportune, optimal, orderly, ordinary, perfect, practical, precise, propitious, proportionate, prudent, rational, regular, reliable, required, respectable, respective, responsive, satisfactory, sensible, serious, solid, substantial, thorough, useful, valid, veritable, viable, well-formed, well-ordered, workable, worthwhile, worthy, wrong, well-established, well-suited, well-functioning, fully-fledged.
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Noun, plural
Concentrations.
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Noun, singular or mass
appropriateness, correct, good, proportionate, Institutes.
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Verb, base form
correct.
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Determiner
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Other Related
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Coordinating conjunction
suitable.
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Preposition or subordinating conjunction
suitable.
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Adjective
reasonable, suitable.
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Proper noun, singular
suitable.
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Noun, singular or mass
suitable.
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Coordinating conjunction
Homophones for Proper:
- propper.
Word of the Day
mis conceive
- Synonyms:
- blunder, err, misconceive, misunderstand, confound, confuse, fail, misapply, misapprehend, miscalculate.
