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English
Etymology
From proper + -ly.
Pronunciation
Adverb
properly (comparative more properly, superlative most properly)
- In a proper manner, appropriately, suitably; correctly, justifiably
- Does she think the repairs have been properly done?
1941, Virginia Woolf, suicide note:I know that I am spoiling your life that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I cant even write this properly.
2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in The Guardian:Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report, which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.
- (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner.
- (colloquial) Entirely; extremely; thoroughly.
I was properly tired after that party.
Synonyms
Translations
in a proper manner
- Arabic: كَمَا يَجِب (kamā yajib), كَمَا يَنْبَغِي (kamā yanbaḡī)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: cabəca
- Basque: behar bezala
- Bulgarian: правилно (bg) (pravilno), както трябва (kakto trjabva)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 正確 / 正确 (zh) (zhèngquè), 好好兒地 / 好好儿地 (hǎohāor de), 適當地 / 适当地 (zh) (shìdàng de)
- Danish: ordentligt
- Esperanto: dece (eo)
- Finnish: oikein (fi), kunnolla (fi)
- French: proprement (fr), correctement (fr), convenablement (fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: ordnungsgemäß (de), ordentlich (de), richtig (de), vernünftig (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌱𐌰 (garēdaba)
- Greek: καταλλήλως (el) (katallílos), δεόντως (el) (deóntos), σωστά (el) (sostá)
- Hindi: ठीक से (hi) (ṭhīk se), ठीक तरह से (ṭhīk tarah se)
- Hittite: 𒀀𒀀𒊏 (a-a-ra)
- Hungarian: megfelelően (hu)
- Italian: propriamente (it), in maniera appropriata, correttamente (it), con cognizione di causa, appuntino (it), per bene, ammodo (it), adeguatamente (it)
- Japanese: 適切に (ja) (てきせつに, tekisetsu ni)
- Khmer: យ៉ាងត្រឹមត្រូវ (yaang-trəm trəw)
- Latin: decōrē
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ordentlig (no)
- Portuguese: propriamente (pt)
- Russian: до́лжным о́бразом (dólžnym óbrazom), как сле́дует (kak slédujet), (colloquial) хороше́нько (ru) (xorošénʹko), пра́вильно (ru) (právilʹno), соотве́тственно (ru) (sootvétstvenno)
- Sanskrit: साधु (sa) (sādhu)
- Spanish: como es debido (es), como corresponde, como toca
- Swedish: ordentligt (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: належно (naležno), правильно (pravylʹno), нале́жним чи́ном (naléžnym čýnom), як слід (jak slid)
- Urdu: ٹھیک سے (ur) (ṭhīk se)
- Vietnamese: tử tế (vi)
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Anagrams
Middle English
Adverb
properly
- properly, appropriately
- individually; in one's own manner
1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, ,
→OCLC; republished in [
William Thynne], editor,
The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, ,
:
[
Richard Grafton for]
Iohn Reynes ,
1542,
→OCLC: