The difference between Appropriate and Suitable

When used as adjectives, appropriate means suitable or fit, whereas suitable means having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task.

Appropriate is also verb with the meaning: to make suitable.

check bellow for the other definitions of Appropriate and Suitable

  1. Appropriate as an adjective:

    Suitable or fit; proper.

    Examples:

    "The headmaster wondered what an appropriate measure would be to make the pupil behave better."

  2. 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."

  3. Appropriate as an adjective (obsolete):

    Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.

  1. Appropriate as a verb (transitive, archaic):

    To make suitable; to suit.

    Examples:

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  2. 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."

  3. 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"

  4. 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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  1. Suitable as an adjective:

    Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.

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