English Dictionary

proper

/ˈpɹɔp.ə/

adj

Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable. / Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.

She has proper manners.

意味（1）

Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable.

the proper time to plant potatoes

意味（2）

Following the established standards of behavior or manners; correct or decorous.

a very proper young lady

意味（3）

(grammar) Used to designate a particular person, place, or thing. Proper nouns are usually written with an initial capital letter.

意味（4）

Pertaining exclusively to a specific thing or person; particular.

, II.1.3:

, II.1.3: They have a proper saint almost for every peculiar infirmity: for poison, gouts, agues […].

意味（5）

(usually postpositive) In the strict sense; within the strict definition or core (of a specified place, taxonomic order, idea, etc).

These are divided into two great families, the vipers proper (Viperidae) and the pit-vipers (Crotalidae).

意味（6）

Belonging to oneself or itself; own.

proper motion — proper left — proper right

意味（7）

(heraldry) Portrayed in natural or usual coloration, as opposed to conventional tinctures.

意味（8）

(mathematics) Being strictly part of some other thing (not necessarily explicitly mentioned, but of definitional importance), and not being the thing itself.

proper subset — proper ideal

意味（9）

(mathematics, physics) Eigen-; designating a function or value which is an eigenfunction or eigenvalue.

意味（10）

Excellent, of high quality; such as the specific person or thing should ideally be. (Now often merged with later senses.)

Now that was a proper breakfast.

意味（11）

(now regional) Attractive, elegant.

The same tyme was Moses borne, and was a propper [translating ἀστεῖος (asteîos)] childe in the sight of God, which was norisshed up in his fathers housse thre monethes.

意味（12）

(often postpositive) In the very strictest sense of the word.

Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper[…].

意味（13）

(now colloquial) Utter, complete.

When I realized I was wearing my shirt inside out, I felt a proper fool.