proper

英語（米国） (en-US) 英語（イギリス） (en-GB)

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɹɔp.ə/

形容詞

後置詞 通常 地域限定 頻度副詞 口語

correct according to social or moral rules

日本語の意味

社会的・道徳的な規範にかなった / 礼儀正しい / 適切な / きちんとした / 上品な

英語の意味

correct according to social or moral rules

やさしい日本語

社会（しゃかい）のルールや人（ひと）として守（まも）るべきことに合（あ）い、きちんとしている様子（ようす）です。

このボタンはなに？

Make sure you wear proper shoes when hiking to avoid injury.

ハイキングではけがを防ぐために適切な靴を必ず履いてください。

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意味（1）

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

the proper time to plant potatoes

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意味（2）

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

a very proper young lady

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

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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).

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意味（6）

Belonging to oneself or itself; own.

proper motion — proper left — proper right

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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

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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.

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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.

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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[…].

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意味（13）

(now colloquial) Utter, complete.

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

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more proper （ comparative ）

most proper （ superlative ）