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"he was appropriately dressed"adverbin accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstancesOpposite:
Definition that contains appropriately
- waste use inefficiently or inappropriately
- indirect discourse a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g.,
- misally make a bad alliance; ally inappropriately
- space cadet someone who seems unable to respond appropriately to reality (as if under the influence of some narcotic drug)
- pretty-pretty ostentatiously or inappropriately pretty