Reverse Dictionary: PROPER

ADJECTIVES
1000 — METHELY proper, befitting, suitable; in accordance with due measure → obs.
1000 — RIGHT-DOING doing what is right or proper
1250 — FELE proper, of the right sort, good → obs.
1325 — FEAT fitting, suitable, proper → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1340 — KINDLY proper, fitting, appropriate; naturally suited to a person or thing → obs.
1340 — SKILFUL reasonable, just, proper → obs.
1340 — UNKIND not having qualities considered proper or appropriate → obs.
1366 — SITTING becoming, befitting; proper, suitable; appropriate → obs.
1366 — WELL SITTING becoming, befitting; proper, suitable; appropriate → obs.
1375 — PURSUAND proper, suitable; conforming to approved standards → obs.
1385 — MEET suitable, fir, proper for some purpose or occasion
1386 — APPURTENANT proper, suited, or appropriate to
1386 — CONVENABLE suitable, appropriate, proper, meet, becoming → obs.
1393 — DUE done or occurring as is fitting or expected; correct, right, proper
1398 — CONVENIENT morally or ethically appropriate; proper → obs.
1400 — GAINLY — GANELIE proper, becoming, suitable; comely, good-looking → obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
1400 — SEEM seemly, proper, fitting → obs.
1400 — WORTH fitting, suitable, proper → obs.
1425 — MEETLY fitting, proper, suitable → obs.
1430 — COMPETENT suitable, fit, proper, appropriate → obs.
1432 — CONVENIABLE agreeing with circumstances or requirements; suitable, appropriate, proper, meet, becoming → obs.
1440 — TALL meet, becoming, seemly, proper, decent → obs.
1475 — CONGRUE fitting, suitable, proper, due; agreeable to the character of anything → obs.
1475 — CONGRUENT accordant, suitable, proper
1492 — WELL-BESEEMING highly proper or appropriate → arch.
1500 — ABLE seemly, proper → obs.
1527 — DUEFUL proper, fitting, appropriate; rightful → chiefly poetic usage
1529 — PRETTY fine, pleasing, commendable; proper, appropriate, polite
1536 — AFFEIRING appropriate; proper → Sc.
1538 — STRAIGHT proper, fitting → obs.
1541 — OPPORTUNATE fit, suitable, proper, opportune → obs.
1589 — FITTY fitting, proper, becoming, suitable → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1597 — HANDSOME proper, fitting, seemly, becoming, decent → obs.
1598 — MENSEFUL proper, seemly, modest, discreet → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1603 — WELL-BEFITTING very suitable, becoming, or proper
1605 — RESPECTIVE appropriate, proper → obs.
1607 — GENUINE proper or peculiar to a person or thing → obs.
1634 — DELICATE having a refined sense of what is proper or appropriate
1650 — EXTRAVAGANT varying widely from what is usual or proper; unsuitable → obs.
1703 — PAT fit, proper, appropriate; ready, fluent, perfect, accurate → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1703 — PAT-OFF fit, proper, appropriate; ready, fluent, perfect, accurate → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1722 — OUTRÉ beyond the bounds of what is considered correct and proper
1748 — FARRANTLY of a thing: becoming, fit, proper → N. Eng. dial.
1776 — PRIG precise; proper, exact
1776 — PUKKA proper, socially acceptable
1825 — GRADELY proper, fit, right; real, genuine, true; good, satisfactory, perfect → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1884 — JANNOCK satisfactory, fit, proper; pleasant, jolly, agreeable, easy to get on with → Eng. dial.
1895 — MIM-MOUTHED affectedly prim or proper in speech, etc.; reticent, shy at speaking out; soft-spoken → Sc.
1896 — KOSHER fair, square, proper, satisfactory → Yiddish
1896 — MIM-SPOKEN affectedly prim or proper in speech, etc.; reticent, shy at speaking out; soft-spoken → Sc.
1900 — DAPSTUCK prim, proper; dapper → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1930 — NICEY-NICE affectedly proper; prissy; too particular or fussy → Amer. dial.
1930 — NICEY-NICEY affectedly proper; prissy; too particular or fussy → Amer. dial.
1955 — BUNG HO proper, right good → US sl.
1956 — STRAIGHT-ARROW conforming to what is regarded as proper or socially acceptable
1956 — STRAIGHT-BATTED proper, correct

ADVERBS
1000 — ARIGHT in a right way or manner; rightly correctly, properly
1000 — FAIR in a proper or suitable manner; appropriately, fittingly → obs.
1000 — MEETLY properly, fittingly, suitably → obs.
1175 — HAGHELY in a proper manner, becomingly, fittingly → obs.
1175 — HAGHERLY properly, fittingly → obs.
1200 — BECOMELY becomingly, properly → obs.
1300 — MANNERLY in a seemly manner, decently, becomingly, properly → obs.
1300 — UNKINDLY in a manner differing from what is proper or fitting; unsuitably → obs.
1340 — GRADELY decently, orderly; properly, excellently; carefully, cautiously → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1350 — KINDLY properly, fittingly; in a suitable or appropriate manner
1375 — FEATOUSLY of actions: cleverly, dexterously, nimbly, properly → obs.
1382 — DULY properly, rightly, fitly; in a manner agreeable to propriety or obligation
1382 — ORDINATELY in an ordered or regulated manner; in due order, in regular succession or sequence; according to order or rule; regularly; properly, duly, temperately → obs.
1400 — FEATLY fitly, properly, suitably, aptly; neatly, elegantly → arch.
1400 — GOODLY properly, with propriety → obs.
1400 — NAITLY to some purpose; properly; thoroughly → obs.
1420 — ATTEMPERATELY properly, suitably → obs.
1425 — COMMUNABLY in a proper or due manner, as friends → obs.
1430 — CONVENABLY in a suitable, proper, or convenient manner; properly, suitably, fitly → obs.
1443 — ACCORDANTLY properly, suitably
1443 — ACCORDINGLY properly, suitably, fittingly
1450 — MEET in a fit or proper manner → obs.
1450 — STATELY properly, in a fitting manner → obs.
1481 — SUPERFLUOUSLY beyond what is proper or necessary
1525 — HANDSOMELY properly, fittingly; in accordance with what  is appropriate or suitable → obs.
1535 — SINCERELY without falsification or perversion; in a proper or correct manner → obs.
1550 — FITLY properly, aptly, suitably
1600 — FAIRLY in a proper or suitable manner; appropriately, fittingly → obs.
1607 — FORMALLY in the ordinary or proper way → obs.
1657 — LEGITIMOUSLY in a lawful or proper manner → obs.
1677 — INABUSIVELY not abusively, properly → obs.
1737 — HABILY competently, properly → Sc. obs.
1785 — ACCORDING TO COCKER properly, correctly, as laid down by the rules
1790 — TIGHTLY deftly, neatly; cleverly, dexterously; properly, correctly → Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
1806 — DIGHT properly, fitly → Sc.
1826 — STRAIGHT in an honest, proper, or reputable manner
1848 — ABOUT EAST in the proper manner, properly, regularly → Amer. dial.
1891 — FAIRLINS properly, completely, absolutely → Sc.
1893 — FITTY-WISE properly
..L19 — ACCORDING TO GUNTER properly, correctly, as laid down by the rules → US sl.
..20C — ACCORDING TO HOYLE properly, correctly, as laid down by the rules → sl.
1900 — DENTLY well, properly, suitably → Eng, dial. (Bk.)
1918 — FAIR DINKUM totally; properly; well and truly → Aust. sl.
1920 — PUKKA correctly, properly → sl.
1943 — HANDY well, properly → Amer. dial.
1965 — STRAIGHT ARROW in an honest, proper, or reputable manner

NOUNS
1175 — SKILL that which is reasonable, proper, right, or just → obs.
1384 — WELL-DOING a conducting oneself well; proper, good, or virtuous conduct
1400 — AFAITEMENT proper behaviour or conduct; good manners → obs.
1400 — MISORDINANCE lack of proper regulation; misconduct → obs.
1420 — SIZE a proper manner or method; a standard of action or conduct → obs.
1425 — DUE that which is fitting or appropriate; a proper procedure or observance → obs.
1440 — SOLEMNITY proper or regular performance → obs.
1450 — DUE DILIGENCE appropriate or proper care and attention, esp. as exercised to avoid committing an offence
1533 — JUSTNESS a being right, proper, or correct
1556 — RIGHTDOING a doing what is right; proper, correct, or moral action
1581 — CUE the proper or politic course to take
1589 — DECORUM that which is proper, suitable, seemly, etc.
1597 — FITNESS a being fit and proper; propriety
1609 — FITMENT that which is fitting or proper → obs.
1621 — CARRIAGE proper conduct; courteous behaviour → obs.
1627 — EXORBITANT something which exceeds proper limits → obs.
1632 — ECONOMY the proper management of the body; the rules which control a person’s mode of living → obs.
1674 — TILTER proper condition; order → Eng. dial.
1712 — DELICACY a refined sense of what is proper or appropriate; sensitivity to feelings of embarrassment, shame, etc.
1724 — BERTH proper place for a thing → nautical usage
1734 — THE THING that which is proper, befitting, or fashionable → colloq.
1767 — THE PROPRIETIES the things that are considered proper; the details or rules of conventionally correct or proper conduct
1771 — THE CIVIL THING the proper course of action; what is considered courteous, polite, or correct
1822 — THE POTATO the real or proper thing; the correct or excellent thing → sl., orig. Sc.
1842 — THE BECOMING that which is befitting or proper; decorum
1888 — MALPROPRIETY want of proper condition; disorderliness
1960 — THE DRILL the proper way of doing things, the recognized procedure → sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
1627 — EXORBITANT a person who exceeds proper limits → obs.

VERBS
1000 — THINK to seem fitting or proper → obs.
1225 — DOW to be good, fitting, or proper for a person; to become, to befit → obs.
1250 — BITHUNCH to seem fitting or proper → obs.
1297 — FALL to appertain or belong; to be applicable, fitting, or proper → obs.
1300 — FERE to be proper or meet, to appertain → obs.
1330 — SIT to be suitable, fitting, proper, or seemly → obs.
1340 — APPROPRE — APPROPRIE to attribute as proper to → obs.
1340 — THINK DEAR to seem right or proper; to seem good → obs.
1369 — WRY to deviate from the right or proper course; to go wrong → obs.
1375 — AFFEIR — AFFERE — EFFEIR to be proper, fitting, or appropriate → chiefly Sc.
1386 — APPERTAIN to be suited, proper, appropriate to
1425 — SUBVERT to alter from what is right or proper
1500 — REDRESS to bring back to the proper order; to transfer to the proper place → obs.
1565 — BETEEM to think fit or proper; to vouchsafe, to grant, to consent → obs.
1567 — IMPROPRIATE to make proper or peculiar to some person or thing → obs.
1571 — TEW to bring into a proper state or condition for some purpose → obs.
1574 — FIT to be fit, seemly, proper, or suitable → obs.
1594 — APPROPRIATE to make proper, to fashion suitably → obs.
1829 — EXTRAVAGATE to exceed what is proper or reasonable
1931 — OVERSTEP to act beyond what is proper or authorized