appropriate
adjective
• suitable or proper in the circumstances.
• "this isn't the appropriate time or place"
Similar:
suitable,
proper,
fitting,
apt,
relevant,
connected,
pertinent,
apposite,
applicable,
germane,
material,
significant,
right,
congruous,
to the point,
to the purpose,
convenient,
expedient,
favourable,
auspicious,
propitious,
opportune,
felicitous,
timely,
well judged,
well timed,
seemly,
befitting,
deserved,
ad rem,
appurtenant,
meet,
seasonable,
appropriate
verb
• take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.
• "the accused had appropriated the property"
Similar:
seize,
commandeer,
expropriate,
annex,
arrogate,
sequestrate,
sequester,
take possession of,
take over,
assume,
secure,
acquire,
wrest,
usurp,
claim,
lay claim to,
hijack,
steal,
take,
misappropriate,
thieve,
pilfer,
pocket,
purloin,
make off with,
embezzle,
swipe,
nab,
rip off,
lift,
filch,
snaffle,
snitch,
bag,
walk off/away with,
liberate,
pinch,
nick,
half-inch,
whip,
knock off,
peculate,
defalcate,
abstract,
plagiarize,
copy,
reproduce,
poach,
bootleg,
infringe the copyright of,
pirate,
crib,
• devote (money or assets) to a special purpose.
• "there can be problems in appropriating funds for legal expenses"
Origin:
late Middle English: from late Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare ‘make one's own’, from ad- ‘to’ + proprius ‘own, proper’.
