adj. 1 suitable, apt, fitting, fit, proper, right, meet, becoming, befitting, seemly, suited, apropos, correct, germane, pertinent, happy, felicitous Will a dinner-jacket be appropriate attire? She has written a poem appropriate to the occasion
v. 2 take, take over, seize, expropriate, arrogate, annex, impound; commandeer; steal, pilfer, filch, usurp, make away or off with, Colloq pinch, lift, Brit nick, US boost The police appropriated the paintings Somebody has appropriated my chair. 3 set aside or apart, devote, assign, earmark, allot, apportion Most of the money has been appropriated for back taxes