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Becoming
BECOM'ING,ppr., but used rarely or never except as an adjective. Fit; suitable; congruous; proper; graceful; belonging to the character, or adapted to circumstances; as, he speaks with becoming boldness; a dress is very becoming.
Some writers formerly used of, after this word.
Such discourses as are becoming of them.
But this use is inelegant or improper.
BECOM'ING, a. Ornament. Obs.
becoming appears in definitions for these words:
Acceding Accendibility Acescency Acescent Aerification Albescent Alburn Amelioration Another Appearance Appearing Arborescent Astrea Avoidance Bagging Bail Bankruptcy Becoming Becomingly Befitting Benefice Beseeming Beseemly Bleaching Breaking Brotherlike Brotherly Childlike Christianlike Christianly Churchlike Chymification Class Comeliness Comely Concinnous Concreting Conjugal Consolidation Cooling Daughterliness Daughterly Dead Decency Decent Decorous Decorously Decrease Decreasing Decrement Decrescent Deliquescence Deliquescent Deteriorating Diminution Disappearing Disciple-like Dissolving Distance Dress Due Duly Dwindling Emaciation Erubescence Etiolation Expatriation Exulcerating Exulceration Fading Failing Failure Fainting Farthing Festive Fibrin Filial Fit Fixation Fraternal Frutescent Genteel Gentlemanly Gracious Growing Hardening Heroic Honey Honorable Igniting Illiberal Improper Incrassated Incrassation Increasing Incurring Kingly Knightly Languishing Lapidescence Lignification Like Liquefying Liquescent Lithophosphoric Lordlike Lordly Majestic Manly Maternal Matronlike Mesentery Military Moderating Motherly Multiplying Neighborly Oculist Oratorial Palatial Parental Pastorlike Perfectibility Perfectible Periauger Point Pricking Priestly Princelike Princely Putrescent Queenly Rancescent Recrudescence Relenting Right Royal Rubescent Saintlike Saintly Salifiable Scholar-like Scholastic Seemly Senatorial Settlement Settling Sisterly Slavelike Soldierlike Soldierly Soldiership Souring Sphaclation Spinescent Sponsion Squirely Stagely Stationary Stiffening Suitable Suiting Taper Tapering Torpescent Transpiring Ulceration Unbrotherly Uncourtly Underwrite Undiminishing Unfatherly Unfilial Unfitting Ungentlemanly Unguestlike Unmaidenly Unmanlike Unneighborly Unpoetic Unseemly Unsuiting Untiring Vesting Waxing Wise Withering Wivehood Womanly Workmanly
Acceding Accendibility Acescency Acescent Aerification Albescent Alburn Amelioration Another Appearance Appearing Arborescent Astrea Avoidance Bagging Bail Bankruptcy Becoming Becomingly Befitting Benefice Beseeming Beseemly Bleaching Breaking Brotherlike Brotherly Childlike Christianlike Christianly Churchlike Chymification Class Comeliness Comely Concinnous Concreting Conjugal Consolidation Cooling Daughterliness Daughterly Dead Decency Decent Decorous Decorously Decrease Decreasing Decrement Decrescent Deliquescence Deliquescent Deteriorating Diminution Disappearing Disciple-like Dissolving Distance Dress Due Duly Dwindling Emaciation Erubescence Etiolation Expatriation Exulcerating Exulceration Fading Failing Failure Fainting Farthing Festive Fibrin Filial Fit Fixation Fraternal Frutescent Genteel Gentlemanly Gracious Growing Hardening Heroic Honey Honorable Igniting Illiberal Improper Incrassated Incrassation Increasing Incurring Kingly Knightly Languishing Lapidescence Lignification Like Liquefying Liquescent Lithophosphoric Lordlike Lordly Majestic Manly Maternal Matronlike Mesentery Military Moderating Motherly Multiplying Neighborly Oculist Oratorial Palatial Parental Pastorlike Perfectibility Perfectible Periauger Point Pricking Priestly Princelike Princely Putrescent Queenly Rancescent Recrudescence Relenting Right Royal Rubescent Saintlike Saintly Salifiable Scholar-like Scholastic Seemly Senatorial Settlement Settling Sisterly Slavelike Soldierlike Soldierly Soldiership Souring Sphaclation Spinescent Sponsion Squirely Stagely Stationary Stiffening Suitable Suiting Taper Tapering Torpescent Transpiring Ulceration Unbrotherly Uncourtly Underwrite Undiminishing Unfatherly Unfilial Unfitting Ungentlemanly Unguestlike Unmaidenly Unmanlike Unneighborly Unpoetic Unseemly Unsuiting Untiring Vesting Waxing Wise Withering Wivehood Womanly Workmanly
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