About The Word “Appropriate”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “appropriate”, including spelling, parts of speech, “appropriate” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “appropriate”

Appropriate is spelled a-p-p-r-o-p-r-i-a-t-e and has 11 letters.


How many vowels and consonants in “appropriate”

The word “appropriate” has 6 consonants and 5 vowels.


How many syllables in “appropriate”?

There are 4 syllables in the word “appropriate”.


What type of word is “appropriate”?

The word "appropriate" can be a adjective and verb.

Meaning of the word “appropriate”

The word 'appropriate' can refer to something that is suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, occasion, or context. Additionally, it can also mean to take something, especially without permission, for one's own use.

Origin of the word “appropriate”

The word 'appropriate' has its origins in the Latin word 'appropriatus,' which is the past participle of 'appropriare,' meaning "to make one's own." This Latin term is derived from the prefix 'ad-' (to) and 'proprius' (one's own).

Example sentences with the word “appropriate”

Adjective:
  1. It is important to wear appropriate attire for a job interview to make a good impression.
  2. The teacher provided appropriate accommodations for the student with special needs.
  3. For this formal event, an appropriate gift would be a bottle of wine or a box of chocolates.
Verb:
  1. The committee will appropriate funds for the new project once it has been approved.

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Synonyms for “appropriate”

Other words for “appropriate” include suitable, fitting, proper, apt, relevant, pertinent, apposite, applicable, fit, right.

Word families for “appropriate”

Appropriacy, appropriately, appropriateness, inappropriacy, ininappropriately, inappropriateness

Common misspellings of “appropriate”

Ahppropriate, apprapriate, appropraite

Similar words to “appropriate”

Appropriated, appropriately, appropriateness, appropriates, appropriating, appropriation, appropriations, approximate, inappropriate, inappropriately, misappropriate, expropriate

Scrambled words derived from “appropriate”

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Words that rhyme with “appropriate”

Dissipate, exonerate, initiate, affiliate, create, relate, negate

Crossword clues for “appropriate”

Seize proper time for suitable action (11).

Fun facts about the word “appropriate”

The word “appropriate” has a Scrabble score of 17 and reads etairporppa in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “appropriate”

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“appropriate” spelled in Morse code

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Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “appropriate”

Lowercase word: 97 112 112 114 111 112 114 105 97 116 101

Uppercase word: 65 80 80 82 79 80 82 73 65 84 69

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “appropriate”

Lowercase word: 1100001 1110000 1110000 1110010 1101111 1110000 1110010 1101001 1100001 1110100 1100101

Uppercase word: 1000001 1010000 1010000 1010010 1001111 1010000 1010010 1001001 1000001 1010100 1000101

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “appropriate”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x61 0x70 0x70 0x72 0x6F 0x70 0x72 0x69 0x61 0x74 0x65

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x41 0x50 0x50 0x52 0x4F 0x50 0x52 0x49 0x41 0x54 0x45

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “appropriate”

Lowercase: 97 112 112 114 111 112 114 105 97 116 101

Upprcase: 65 80 80 82 79 80 82 73 65 84 69

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “appropriate”

Lowercase: 141 160 160 162 157 160 162 151 141 164 145

Upprcase: 101 120 120 122 117 120 122 111 101 124 105

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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