APPROPRIATELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appropriately mean? 

• APPROPRIATELY (adverb)
  The adverb APPROPRIATELY has 1 sense:

1. in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances

  Familiarity information: APPROPRIATELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPROPRIATELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances

Synonyms:

appropriately; befittingly; duly; fitly; fittingly; properly; suitably

Context example:

I met the junior senator from Illinois and I was duly impressed

Antonym:

inappropriately (in an inappropriate manner)

Pertainym:

appropriate (suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc)

 Context examples 

Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Brush his/her teeth or take care of his/her dentures appropriately?

(DAD - Brush Teeth or Take Care of Dentures Appropriately, NCI Thesaurus)

A text block containing publishing and authoring information that allows receivers of this document version to refer appropriately to this document version.

(Document Version Bibliographic Designation, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with the device failure to appropriately respond to signals from a system designed to interrogate its status.

(Failure to Interrogate Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with the inability to appropriately perform or generate any automated setting if no specific selection has made by the users.

(Medical Device Inappropriate Reset to Default, Food and Drug Administration)

I recollect well how indignantly my heart beat, as I saw his crafty face, with the appropriately red light of the fire upon it, preparing for something else.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Further examination using special stains and/or immunohistochemistry is required to appropriately classify this tumor.

(Clear Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

Even the hunters were pulling, and with three pairs of oars in the water they rapidly overhauled what I may appropriately term the enemy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

This helps us work out how to reinforce the building appropriately.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

Responding appropriately to aversive or rewarding stimuli is essential for survival.

(Researchers identify key brain circuits for reward-seeking and avoidance behavior, National Institutes of Health)

Issue associated with the failure of a battery or other charge storage device to appropriately discharge as intended.

(Failure to Discharge Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)