{
  "id": "appropriate.suitable",
  "term": "appropriate",
  "sense": "suitable",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "default",
  "domain": "lexicon",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "just when a thing is just the usual",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "just.exact",
      "usual.common"
    ],
    "interaction": "just and usual together signal that the thing fits its situation",
    "novel_properties": [
      "situational fit",
      "contextual suitability"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station maintains a 220 km average altitude despite atmospheric drag.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Australian bushfires released 715 million tonnes of CO₂, altering forest regeneration cycles.",
      "domain": "ecology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Java programming language supported legacy applets until version 17, released in 2021.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "just.exact",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "usual.common",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "appropriate",
    "appropriately"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-appropriate.suitable"
}