Definition: 1. Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc. 2. Meant or adapted for an occasion or use. 3. Take something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.
Use 'appropriate' in a sentence:
1. If the simple and easy adapter pattern will work for most users, when will it not be appropriate?
2. The idea of learning to make appropriate responses based on reinforcing events has its roots in early psychological theories.
3. Instead, I add extra methods to the subclasses that perform the appropriate action for each subclass.
4. You can view these statistics to help determine how your cache is performing, and whether the size of your cache is appropriate.
5. Verbatim insertion is more appropriate in this example, since the aim is to exactly copy the text above the cursor.
6. To do that, you want to find each template and make the appropriate change.
7. You need to decide if these changes are appropriate or necessary in your environment.
8. Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies.
9. If the answer is 'yes', then we must decide on an appropriate course of action.
10. What you said on the occasion was not appropriate.
11. It seemed an appropriate place to end somehow.
12. We were hoping not only to identify things we should measure, but also how we should measure and analyze the data, and what kinds of experiments might be most appropriate.
13. I felt it was entirely appropriate to honour my adopted country in my new hometown.
14. But he said it would not be appropriate to release further details of the schemes at this stage.
15. Do work by executing appropriate code at each point in the application.
16. If you have the appropriate skills and authority, you can update or extend this set of types.
17. The artist recorded interviews on a variety of topics and modelled an appropriate animal for each voice.
18. The land was simply appropriated by the rulers.
