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Meaning of PROPERLY

Pronunciation:  'prâpurlee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [adv]  in the right manner; "please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"
  2. [adv]  with reason or justice
 
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 Synonyms: by rights, decent, decently, in good order, right, the right way
 
 Antonyms: improperly
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Prop"er*ly\, adv.
1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly;
   as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.
   --Milton.
2. Individually; after one's own manner. [Obs.]
         Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. --Chaucer.
 

 

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