IMPROPER
\ɪmpɹˈɒpə], \ɪmpɹˈɒpə], \ɪ_m_p_ɹ_ˈɒ_p_ə]\
Definitions of IMPROPER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress.
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Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common.
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Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous.
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To appropriate; to limit.
By Oddity Software
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Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress.
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Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common.
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Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous.
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To appropriate; to limit.
By Noah Webster.
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Not well adapted or suited to the purpose; not according to usage; wrong; unseemly; unbecoming; indecent; in mathematics, indicating a fraction in which the numerator is greater than the denominator.
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Improperly.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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a. unsuitable ; ill-adapted to the end or design ;- unqualified ; unfit ;- unbecoming ; indecent; - inaccurate ; unusual ; contrary to the rules or usage of a language ; ungrammatical.
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