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適当 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • adequate adjective Enough to meet a need or requirement; sufficient.
  • appropriate adj Suitable or correct for a particular situation.
  • fitness noun The condition of being physically healthy and strong, usually through exercise.
  • proper adj Right, fitting, or appropriate for a given purpose or situation.
  • random adj Happening or chosen without any particular pattern, plan, or reason.

Senses

適当 is used for these senses in English:

  • adequate Equal to or fulfilling some requirement.
  • appropriate Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
  • proper Suited or acceptable to the purpose or circumstances; fit, suitable. [13th c.]
  • random (statistics) Involving an outcome which is impossible to predict, but which may be represented by a probability distribution; in the ideal case, involving outcomes which are equally likely.
  • random (informal) Being (part of) a varied, unrelated, and apparently arbitrary collection of things; diverse, heterogeneous.
  • random (informal) Of a person: characterized by or often saying random things; habitually using non sequiturs.

appropriate — full definition

  1. adj Suitable or correct for a particular situation.
  2. verb To take something for one's own use, often without permission.

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