The difference between Appropriate and Felicitous
When used as adjectives, appropriate means suitable or fit, whereas felicitous means appropriate, apt, fitting.
Appropriate is also verb with the meaning: to make suitable.
check bellow for the other definitions of Appropriate and Felicitous
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Appropriate as an adjective:
Suitable or fit; proper.
Examples:
"The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better."
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Appropriate as an adjective:
Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
Examples:
"I don't think it was appropriate for the cashier to tell me out loud in front of all those people at the check-out that my hair-piece looked like it was falling out of place."
"While it is not considered appropriate for a professor to date his student, there is no such concern once the semester has ended."
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Appropriate as an adjective (obsolete):
Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
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Appropriate as a verb (transitive, archaic):
To make suitable; to suit.
Examples:
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Appropriate as a verb (transitive):
To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
Examples:
"Let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit."
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Appropriate as a verb (transitive):
To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
Examples:
"A spot of ground is appropriated for a garden."
"to appropriate money for the increase of the navy"
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Appropriate as a verb (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, legal):
To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
Examples:
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Felicitous as an adjective:
Characterized by felicity. Appropriate, apt, fitting. Auspicious, fortunate, lucky. Causing happiness or pleasure.
Examples:
"antonyms infelicitous unfelicitous"
"synonyms opportune wealfuq2=dialectal or obsolete"
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Felicitous as an adjective (linguistics):
Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.
Examples:
"antonyms grammaticaunfelicitous"
"This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous."