appropriate (adj.) Copy link Outline I. Belonging peculiarly to, peculiarII. Suitable • appropriate (adj.): I. Belonging peculiarly to, peculiar: proprĭus: this is the a. character of a letter, that it informs him to whom it is addressed of circumstances not known to him, hoc est epistolae proprium, ut is ad quem scribitur de his rebus quos ignoret, certior fiat, Cic.: v. peculiar. II. Suitable: congrŭens, entis (with dat.): an action a. to the mind, c. actio menti, Cic.: a fit and a. style of speaking, genus dicendi aptum et c., Cic.: v. apposite, suitable, fit.