appropriate

verb

  1. To make suitable; to suit.

  2. To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.

    "Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."

  3. 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."

  4. To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).

Synonyms: allocate, earmark, help oneself, impropriate

adjective

  1. Suitable or fit; proper.

    "The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better."

  2. 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."

  3. Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

Synonyms: apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable
Antonyms: inappropriate