proper /ˈprɔpə/ adj. 1. 适当的，正确的(没有比较级)： It isn’t proper to telephone him at this late. 天这么晚了给他打电话不合适。He wore clothes proper for the party. 他穿着适合聚会穿的衣服。 2. 合乎体统的，正派的：proper children 一本正经的孩子；quite a proper book 一本质量高的书 3. 本身的：in the proper sense of the word 按照词的本意 Language is proper to mankind. 语言是人类所特有的。
［辨析］与appropriate和suitable辨见appropriate
properly adv. 恰当地，正确地：［考句］ The man to whom we handed the forms pointed out that they had not been properly filled in. 收我们表格的人说表格没有正确地填好。
