becoming
(adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage; âa becoming new shade of roseâ; âa becoming portraitâ
becoming, comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly
(adjective) according with custom or propriety; âher becoming modestyâ; âcomely behaviorâ; âit is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for moneyâ; âseemly behaviorâ
Source: WordNet® 3.1
becoming
present participle of become
becoming (usually uncountable, plural becomings)
(chiefly, philosophy) The act or process by which something becomes.
becoming (comparative more becoming, superlative most becoming)
pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous; beautiful
decent, respectable
• unbecoming
Source: Wiktionary
Be*com"ing, a.
Definition: 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.
Definition: That which is becoming or appropriate. [Obs.]
Be*come", v. i. [imp. Became; p. p. Become; p. pr. & vb. n. Becoming.] Etym: [OE. bicumen, becumen, AS. becuman to come to, to happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come upon, G. bekommen to get, suit. See Be-, and Come.]
1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.
2. To come; to get. [Obs.] But, madam, where is Warwick then become! Shak. To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or subsequent condition of. What is then become of so huge a multitude Sir W. Raleigh.
Be*come", v. t.
Definition: To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; -- said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. Coleridge.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
