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Properly
see synonyms of properlyAdverb
1. decent, decently, in good order, properly, right, the right way
in the right manner
Example Sentences:'please do your job properly!''can't you carry me decent?'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Properly
see synonyms of properlyadj.
1. Characterized by appropriateness or suitability; fitting: the proper knife for cutting bread; not a proper moment for a joke.
2. Called for by rules or conventions; correct: the proper form for a business letter.
3. Strictly following rules or conventions, especially in social behavior; seemly: a proper lady; a proper gentleman.
4.
a. Belonging to one; own: restored to his proper shape by the magician.
b. Characteristically belonging to the being or thing in question; peculiar: an optical effect proper to fluids.
5. Being within the strictly limited sense, as of a term designating something: the town proper, excluding the suburbs.
6. Ecclesiastical For use in the liturgy of a particular feast or season of the year.
7. Mathematics Of or relating to a subset of a given set when the set has at least one element not in the subset.
8. Worthy of the name; true: wanted a proper dinner, not just a snack.
9. Out-and-out; thorough: a proper whipping.
adv.
Thoroughly: beat the eggs good and proper.
n. also Proper
Ecclesiastical
Ecclesiastical
The portion of the liturgy that varies according to the particular feast or season of the year.
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