Improper

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Improper \Im*prop"er\, v. t.
     To appropriate; to limit. [Obs.]
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           He would in like manner improper and inclose the
           sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor. --Jewel.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Improper \Im*prop"er\, a. [F. impropre, L. improprius; pref. im-
     not + proprius proper. See {Proper}.]
     1. Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances,
        design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous;
        inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine;
        improper thought, behavior, language, dress.
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              Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service,
              Improper for a slave.                 --Shak.
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              And to their proper operation still,
              Ascribe all Good; to their improper, Ill. --Pope.
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     2. Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general;
        common. [Obs.]
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              Not to be adorned with any art but such improper
              ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and
              poetry.                               --J. Fletcher.
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     3. Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous.
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     {Improper diphthong}. See under {Diphthong}.
  
     {Improper feud}, an original feud, not earned by military
        service. --Mozley & W.
  
     {Improper fraction}. See under {Fraction}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  improper
       adj 1: not suitable or right or appropriate; "slightly improper to
              dine alone with a married man"; "improper medication"
              [ant: {proper}]
       2: not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention;
          "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking practices"
          [syn: {unconventional}, {unlawful}]
       3: not appropriate for a purpose or occasion; "unsuitable
          attire for the office"; "said all the wrong things" [syn:
          {unsuitable}, {wrong}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  257 Moby Thesaurus words for "improper":
     Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, amiss, arrant, atrocious,
     bad, barbaric, barbarous, base, black, blamable, blameworthy,
     blooper, boner, boo-boo, break, cacophonous, careless, chintzy,
     clumsy, coarse, corrupt, corruption, criminal, crude, damnable,
     dark, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, disorderly, disruptive,
     doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, evil, excessive, execrable,
     false, faulty, faux pas, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fresh, futile,
     gaffe, gauche, graceless, gross, hardly the thing, harsh, heinous,
     ignominious, ill, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted,
     ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-seasoned,
     ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, illegal, immodest, immoral,
     impertinent, impolite, impolitic, imprecise, impropriety, impure,
     in bad taste, inaccurate, inadmissibility, inadmissible,
     inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt,
     inauspicious, incompatible, inconcinnate, inconcinnous,
     incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, incorrectness, indecent,
     indecorous, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicate, indiscreet,
     inelegance, inelegant, inept, inexact, inexpedient, infamous,
     infelicitous, inferior, informal, iniquitous, inopportune,
     intempestive, intrusive, invalid, irregular, irrelevant, knavish,
     lascivious, late, lewd, loose, low, mal a propos, maladjusted,
     malapropos, malevolent, malodorous, misbehaving, misjoined,
     mismatched, mismated, misplaced, mistaken, mistimed, monstrous,
     naughty, nefarious, not done, not respectable, not the thing,
     objectionableness, obscene, off base, off color, off-base,
     off-color, offensive, out of character, out of joint,
     out of keeping, out of line, out of phase, out of place,
     out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune,
     out-of-line, outlandish, peccant, premature, rank, reprehensible,
     reprobate, risque, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, rude, ruffianly,
     sacrilegious, sassy, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful,
     sinister, slipshod, slovenly, solecism, solecistic, suggestive,
     tactless, tasteless, terrible, too late, too soon,
     unacceptableness, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbecomingness,
     unbefitting, unbehaving, unbeseeming, uncalled-for, unceremonious,
     uncomely, unconventional, uncourtly, uncouth, undecorous,
     undesirable, undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfavorable,
     unfelicitous, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unforgivable,
     unfortunate, ungenteel, ungodly, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unhandy,
     unhappy, unhealthy, unkind, unlawful, unlucky, unmeet, unmeetness,
     unpardonable, unpleasant, unpolished, unprofitable, unpropitious,
     unqualified, unready, unrefined, unrighteous, unripe, unseasonable,
     unseemliness, unseemly, unskillful, unspeakable, unsuitable,
     unsuited, untasteful, untimely, untoward, untrue, unwise, unworthy,
     vernacularism, vicious, vile, villainous, vulgar, vulgarism,
     wicked, wrong, wrongful