| 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. |
| 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. |
verb, be⋅came, be⋅come, be⋅com⋅ing.| 1. | to come, change, or grow to be (as specified): He became tired. |
| 2. | to come into being. |
| 3. | to be attractive on; befit in appearance; look well on: That gown becomes you. |
| 4. | to be suitable or necessary to the dignity, situation, or responsibility of: conduct that becomes an officer. |
| 5. | become of, to happen to; be the fate of: What will become of him? |