properly

Adverb

Meaning

In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.

Individually; after one's own manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

duly right exactly appropriately decent precisely suitably fittingly fitly decently just well good great righteously
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Antonyms

improperly unfortunately wrong poorly badly incorrectly
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Phrases with the word

eat properly be properly regulated functioning properly act properly be properly monitored conduct oneself properly

Anagrams

proprely

Examples

Do not judge yourself, but live with someone who knows how to behave himself properly. Poemen

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. Arthur Schopenhauer

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent. Charles de Gaulle

With many captains, the ship does not sail properly. Swahili Proverb

A trade not properly learned is an enemy. Irish Proverb

You can't trust that a job will be done properly unless you do it yourself. Finnish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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