Improper

1. (a.) Not proper; not appropriate; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress.

2. (a.) Not peculiar or appropriate to individuals; general; common.

3. (a.) Not according to facts; inaccurate; erroneous.

4. (v. t.) To appropriate; to limit.

Thesaurus Entries

Doric, aberrant, abnormal, abominable, amiss, arrant, atrocious, bad, barbaric, barbarous, base, black, blamable, blameworthy, blooper, boner, boo-boo, break, cacophonous, careless, chintzy, clumsy, coarse, corrupt, corruption, criminal, crude, damnable, dark, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, disorderly, disruptive, doggerel, dysphemistic, erroneous, evil, excessive, execrable, FALSE, faulty, faux pas, flagitious, flagrant, foul, fresh, futile, gaffe, gauche, graceless, gross, hardly the thing, harsh, heinous, ignominious, ill, ill-adapted, ill-advised, ill-assorted, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fitted, ill-matched, ill-seasoned, ill-sorted, ill-suited, ill-timed, illegal, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, impolitic, imprecise, impropriety, impure, in bad taste, inaccurate, inadmissibility, inadmissible, inadvisable, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incompatible, inconcinnate, inconcinnous, incongruous, inconvenient, incorrect, incorrectness, indecent, indecorous, indecorousness, indecorum, indelicate, indiscreet, inelegance, inelegant, inept, inexact, inexpedient, infamous, infelicitous, inferior, informal, iniquitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, invalid, irregular, irrelevant, knavish, lascivious, late, lewd, loose, low, mal a propos, maladjusted, malapropos, malevolent, malodorous, misbehaving, misjoined, mismatched, mismated, misplaced, mistaken, mistimed, monstrous, naughty, nefarious, not done, not respectable, not the thing, objectionableness, obscene, off base, off color, off-base, off-color, offensive, out of character, out of joint, out of keeping, out of line, out of phase, out of place, out of proportion, out of season, out of time, out of tune, out-of-line, outlandish, peccant, premature, rank, reprehensible, reprobate, risque, rough, rowdy, rowdyish, rude, ruffianly, sacrilegious, sassy, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, sinister, slipshod, slovenly, solecism, solecistic, suggestive, tactless, tasteless, terrible, too late, too soon, unacceptableness, unadapted, unapt, unbecoming, unbecomingness, unbefitting, unbehaving, unbeseeming, uncalled-for, unceremonious, uncomely, unconventional, uncourtly, uncouth, undecorous, undesirable, undignified, undue, uneuphonious, unfavorable, unfelicitous, unfit, unfitted, unfitting, unforgivable, unfortunate, ungenteel, ungodly, ungraceful, ungrammatic, unhandy, unhappy, unhealthy, unkind, unlawful, unlucky, unmeet, unmeetness, unpardonable, unpleasant, unpolished, unprofitable, unpropitious, unqualified, unready, unrefined, unrighteous, unripe, unseasonable, unseemliness, unseemly, unskillful, unspeakable, unsuitable, unsuited, untasteful, untimely, untoward, untrue, unwise, unworthy, vernacularism, vicious, vile, villainous, vulgar, vulgarism