What does properly mean?
Definitions for properly
prop·er·ly
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word properly.
Princeton's WordNet
properly, decently, decent, in good order, right, the right wayadverb
in the right manner
"please do your job properly!"; "can't you carry me decent?"
by rights, properlyadverb
with reason or justice
Wiktionary
properlyadverb
in a proper manner
properlyadverb
individually; in one's own manner
Now herkenyth how I bar me properly. uE000151315uE001 Chaucer.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Properlyadverb
Etymology: from proper.
What dies but what has life
And sin? the body properly hath neither. John Milton.The miseries of life are not properly owing to the unequal distribution of things. Jonathan Swift.
There is a sense in which the works of every man, good as well as bad, are properly his own. John Rogers.
Webster Dictionary
Properlyadverb
in a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted
Properlyadverb
individually; after one's own manner
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'properly' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2034
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'properly' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1030
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'properly' in Adverbs Frequency: #159
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of properly in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of properly in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of properly in a Sentence
If you're going on a run, you think about other stuff in your life and problems, whereas when I go out and jump rope, you just focus on that. You are properly in the zone. You can't think about anything else because it involves so much of your mind to actually do these tricks.
I mean, if in fact the execution was not properly conducted, I don't see how you can blame it on the drug.
I have big heart for DACA, i want to be able to keep them. But if the court rules properly, there will be no problem with DACA and we'll get everything solved. If the court rules in favor of Obama having that right, it's going to be a disaster because we will get nothing, we will get nothing done.
We're nottrying to destroy the industry. All we're saying is you have a responsibility to properly compensate us for the use of the data that we are giving you, that you're mining off of us, that we have seen no return on, in some ways the ketchup is out of the bottle, and we’re not trying to put it all back yet, but we do think there should be fair, appropriate and equitable way to manage this data, use this data and compensate us for it fairly and properly.
I think UEFA has made it very clear. And I have made it very clear, that this whole situation is basically a non-story, everything has been done completely transparently and properly.
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- كما يجب, كما ينبغيArabic
- richtig, ordentlich, ordnungsgemäßGerman
- δεόντως, σωστά, καθωσπρέπειGreek
- correctamenteSpanish
- به درستیPersian
- oikeinFinnish
- correctement, proprement, convenablementFrench
- अच्छी तरह, ठीक, ठीक तरह सेHindi
- dengan baikIndonesian
- correttamente, in maniera appropriata, con cognizione di causa, propriamenteItalian
- 適切Japanese
- ordentligNorwegian
- правильно, хорошенько, как следует, соответственно, должным образомRussian
- uygun şekildeTurkish
- ٹھیکUrdu
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