Meaning of BECOMING
| Pronunciation: | | bi'kuming
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- [adj] displaying or setting off to best advantage; "a becoming new shade of rose"; "a becoming portrait"
- [adj] according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior"
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| | Synonyms: | | comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, flattering, proper, seemly |
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| | Definition: | | Becoming
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\Be*com"ing\, a.
Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
A low and becoming tone. --Thackeray.
Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of.
Such discourses as are becoming of them.
--Dryden.
Syn: Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
\Be*com"ing\, n.
That which is becoming or appropriate. [Obs.]
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