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BECOMINGLY

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be⋅com⋅ing

  [bi-kuhm-ing]
Use BECOMINGLY in a Sentence
–adjective
1. that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
2. suitable; appropriate; proper: a becoming sentiment.
–noun
3. any process of change.
4. Aristotelianism. any change involving realization of potentialities, as a movement from the lower level of potentiality to the higher level of actuality.
Origin:
1555–65; become + -ing 1 , -ing 2

Related forms:
be⋅com⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
be⋅com⋅ing⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. comely. 2. fitting, meet, fit, apt, right, decorous, congruous, seemly.
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be·com·ing   (bĭ-kŭm'ĭng)   
adj.  

  1. Appropriate, suitable, or proper.

  2. Pleasing or attractive to the eye.

be·com'ing·ly adv., be·com'ing·ness n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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