properly
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Hyphenation: prop‧er‧ly
Adverb
properly (comparative more properly, superlative most properly)
- in a proper manner.
- 2011 December 16, Denis Campbell, “Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients'”, in Guardian[1]:
- 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.
- (colloquial) Entirely; extremely; thoroughly.
- I was properly tired after that party.
- (obsolete) individually; in one's own manner
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- Now herkenyth how I bar me properly.
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Translations
in a proper manner
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