APPROPRIATE | • appropriate adj. Suitable or fit; proper. • appropriate adj. Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially… • appropriate adj. (Obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. |
DISAPPROPRIATE | • disappropriate v. To remove something that has been allocated to someone; often to reassign it elsewhere. • disappropriate adj. (Law) Severed from the appropriation or possession of a spiritual corporation. • DISAPPROPRIATE v. to take away from the condition of being appropriated. |
DISPROPRIATE | • dispropriate v. (Transitive) To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate. • DISPROPRIATE v. (obsolete) to disappropriate. |
EXPROPRIATE | • expropriate v. (Transitive) To deprive a person of (their private property) for public use. • EXPROPRIATE v. to deprive of possession or proprietary rights. |
IMPROPRIATE | • impropriate v. (Transitive, obsolete) To appropriate for private use. • impropriate v. (Transitive) In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson. • impropriate adj. Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson. |
INAPPROPRIATE | • inappropriate adj. Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place. • inappropriate adj. (Informal, in particular) Improper; adult; sexual. • INAPPROPRIATE adj. not appropriate, also UNAPPROPRIATE. |
MALAPPROPRIATE | • malappropriate v. Synonym of misappropriate. • MALAPPROPRIATE v. to misuse or misappropriate. |
MISAPPROPRIATE | • misappropriate v. (Transitive) To take something for wrong or illegal purposes. • misappropriate v. (Transitive) To embezzle. • MISAPPROPRIATE v. to appropriate wrongly (as by theft or embezzlement). |
REAPPROPRIATE | • reappropriate v. To seize and reassign. • reappropriate v. To appropriate again. • reappropriate v. (Sociology) (of a group) To reclaim a term that was previously used to disparage that group. |
UNAPPROPRIATE | • unappropriate v. (Transitive) To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all. • unappropriate adj. (Rare) Inappropriate; unsuitable. • unappropriate adj. (Obsolete) Not appropriated. |