What's The Definition Of Improper?
[adj] not appropriate for a purpose or occasion; "unsuitable attire for the office"; "said all the wrong things"
[adj] not suitable or right or appropriate; "slightly improper to dine alone with a married man"; "improper medication"
[adj] not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking practices"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Improper: inappropriate |
incorrect |
indecent |
indecorous |
irregular |
out-of-the-way |
unbecoming |
uncomely |
unconventional |
unlawful |
unseemly |
unsuitable |
untoward |
wrong
Related Terms | Find terms related to Improper: 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 |
Doric |
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 |
illegal |
ill-fitted |
ill-matched |
ill-seasoned |
ill-sorted |
ill-suited |
ill-timed |
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 |
outlandish |
out-of-line |
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
See Also | indelicate |
unfit
Improper In Webster's Dictionary
\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.
Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service,
Improper for a slave. --Shak.
And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all
Good; to their improper, Ill. --Pope.
2. Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general;
common. [Obs.]
Not to be adorned with any art but such improper
ones as nature is said to bestow, as singing and
poetry. --J. Fletcher.
3. Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous.
{Improper diphthong}. See under {Diphthong}.
{Improper feud}, an original feud, not earned by military
service. --Mozley & W.
{Improper fraction}. See under {Fraction}.
\Im*prop"er\, v. t.
To appropriate; to limit. [Obs.]
He would in like manner improper and inclose the
sunbeams to comfort the rich and not the poor. --Jewel.
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