appropriate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/    美 /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right. transitive
    — Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
  2. To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for. transitive
    — A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden.
  3. To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property). UK,transitive
    — Some [benefices] were appropriated to secular ecclesiastical corporations
  4. To make suitable to; to suit. archaic,transitive
    — Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.
形容词 adj.
  1. Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
    — 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 checkout that my hairpiece looked like it was falling out of place.
  3. Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. obsolete
  4. Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
    — Rescuing animals is an appropriate thing to do.
  5. Of an action or thing: pleasant.

词形变化

appropriates present,singular,third-person appropriating participle,present appropriated participle,past appropriated past more appropriate comparative most appropriate superlative

词汇关系

近义词
impropriate steal earmark felicitous fitting suitable
反义词
inappropriate unhappy
衍生词
appropriater appropriative appropriator disappropriate malappropriate misappropriate reappropriate unappropriate appropes appropriately appropriateness nonappropriate
相关词
appropriation proper property

词源

词源 1
From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) + -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix).
词源 2
From Middle English appropriat (“appropriated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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