Becoming

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Appropriate, suitable, or proper.
  • adj. Pleasing or attractive to the eye.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Present participle of become.
  • n. The act or process in which something becomes.
  • adj. pleasingly suitable to the particular person involved.
  • adj. decent, respectable
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
  • n. That which is becoming or appropriate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Fit; suitable; congruous; proper; belonging to the character, or adapted to the circumstances: formerly sometimes followed by of.
  • Suitable to the appearance or style of; be-fitting esthetically: as, a becoming dress.
  • n. Something worn as an ornament.
  • n. That which is suitable, fit, or appropriate.
  • n. In metaphysics, the transition from non-existence into existence; an intermediate state between being and not being; a state of flux; the state of that which begins to be, but does not endure; change; development: opposed to being.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. according with custom or propriety
  • adj. displaying or setting off to best advantage
  • Equivalent
    proper    flattering   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    decent    decorous    seemly    proper    comely    congruous    suitable    graceful    befitting   
    Verb Stem
    become   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    coming    cumming    drumming    dumbing    forthcoming    humming    numbing    plumbing    strumming    succumbing