Synonyms for proper
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Suitable
fit, just, decent, fitting; see fit 1, 2.
Conventional
customary, usual, decorous; see conventional 1, 2.
Prudish
prim, precise, strait-laced; see prudish.
Personal
private, own, peculiar; see individual 1. See syn. study at fit.
See proper in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
adjective
Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place:
appropriate, apt, becoming, befitting, correct, felicitous, fit1, fitting, happy, meet2, right, tailor-made. See rightSuited to one's end or purpose:
appropriate, befitting, convenient, expedient, fit1, good, meet2, suitable, tailor-made, useful. See agree, goodConsistent with prevailing or accepted standards or circumstances:
appropriate, deserved, due, fit1, fitting, just, merited, right, rightful, suitable. See rightConforming to accepted standards:
becoming, befitting, comely, comme il faut, correct, decent, decorous, de rigueur, nice, respectable, right, seemly. See courtesyIn accordance with principles of right or good conduct:
ethical, moral, principled, right, righteous, rightful, right-minded, virtuous. See rightMarked by excessive concern for propriety and good form:
bluenosed, genteel, old-maidish, precise, priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian. Idiom: prim and proper. See plain
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