noun
1. appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
• Syn: ↑rightness
• Ant: ↑inappropriateness
• Hypernyms: ↑propriety, ↑properness, ↑correctitude
2. the quality of being specially suitable
• Ant: ↑inappropriateness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑appropriate
• Hypernyms: ↑suitability, ↑suitableness
• Hyponyms: ↑felicity, ↑felicitousness, ↑aptness, ↑appositeness, ↑ticket, ↑just the ticket
• Attrubites: ↑appropriate, ↑inappropriate, ↑apropos, ↑malapropos
Useful english dictionary. 2012.