Appropriate vs. Impropriate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Appropriate and Impropriate
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Definitions
Appropriate➦
Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting.
Impropriate➦
To appropriate for private use.
Appropriate➦
To set apart for a specific use
Appropriating funds for education.
Impropriate➦
(transitive) In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.
Appropriate➦
To take possession of or make use of exclusively for oneself, often without permission
My coworker appropriated my unread newspaper.
Impropriate➦
Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson.
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Appropriate➦
Suitable or fit; proper.
The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better.
Impropriate➦
To appropriate to one's self; to assume.
To impropriate the thanks to himself.
Appropriate➦
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place.
While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended.
Impropriate➦
To place the profits of (ecclesiastical property) in the hands of a layman for care and disbursement.
Appropriate➦
(obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Impropriate➦
To become an impropriator.
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Appropriate➦
(transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
Impropriate➦
Put into the hands of a layman; impropriated.
Appropriate➦
(transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
To appropriate money for the increase of the navy
Appropriate➦
To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
Appropriate➦
To make suitable to; to suit.
Appropriate➦
Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
In its strict and appropriate meaning.
Appropriate acts of divine worship.
It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas.
Appropriate➦
To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
Appropriate➦
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; - with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
Appropriate➦
To make suitable; to suit.
Appropriate➦
To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
Appropriate➦
A property; attribute.
Appropriate➦
Give or assign a share of money or time to a particular person or cause;
I will earmark this money for your research
Appropriate➦
Take possession of by force, as after an invasion;
The invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants
The army seized the town
The militia captured the castle
Appropriate➦
Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc;
A book not appropriate for children
A funeral conducted the appropriate solemnity
It seems that an apology is appropriate
Appropriate➦
Appropriate for achieving a particular end; implies a lack of concern for fairness
Appropriate➦
Meant or adapted for an occasion or use;
A tractor suitable (or fit) for heavy duty
Not an appropriate (or fit) time for flippancy
Appropriate➦
Suitable and fitting;
The tailored clothes were harmonious with her military bearing
Appropriate➦
Being of striking appropriateness and pertinence;
The successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images
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