Proper
Belonging to one; one's own; individual.
Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites.
Befitting one's nature, qualities, etc.; suitable in all respect; appropriate; right; fit; decent; as, water is the proper element for fish; a proper dress.
Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome.
Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
Rightly so called; strictly considered; as, Greece proper; the garden proper.
Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge.
Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
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Proper Quotations
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Oscar Wilde
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
Thomas Jefferson
Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.
Aristotle
The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.
Plato
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Proper Translations
proper in Afrikaans is juis, behoorlik
proper in Danish is rigtig
proper in Dutch is fatsoenlijk, betamelijk, behoorlijk
proper in Finnish is oikea
proper in French is convenable
proper in Latin is decorus, verus, idoneus, decet, commodus, iustus
proper in Portuguese is apropriado
proper in Spanish is recto
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