<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>suitable or fitting for a particular purpose, person, occasion, etc.: an appropriate example; an appropriate dress.</li><li>Synonyms: meet, pertinent, becoming, due, proper, suited, felicitous, apt, befitting</li><li>Antonyms: inept, inappropriate, unsuitable</li><li>belonging to or peculiar to a person; proper: Each played his appropriate part.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to set apart, authorize, or legislate for some specific purpose or use: The legislature appropriated funds for the university.</li><li>Synonyms: assign, allocate, apportion</li><li>to take to or for oneself; take possession of.</li><li>to take without permission or consent; seize; expropriate: He appropriated the trust funds for himself.</li><li>to steal, especially to commit petty theft.</li></ul>