befitting

[ bih-fit-ing ]
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adjective
  1. suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.

Origin of befitting

1
First recorded in 1555–65; befit + -ing2

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Other words from befitting

  • be·fit·ting·ly, adverb
  • be·fit·ting·ness, noun
  • un·be·fit·ting, adjective
  • well-be·fit·ting, adjective

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How to use befitting in a sentence

  • No doubt he might have won her, but he is restrained by the horror of being grotesque and indulging in antics unbefitting his age.

    Knut Hamsun | Hanna Astrup Larsen
  • Bilson was careless about the wine; Sophronia took to the wearing of gowns unbefitting a maid of forty years.

    Short Sixes | H. C. Bunner
  • The simplest thing would be to come to an understanding with Katie, but that was unbefitting Lilly's station.

    The Song of Songs | Hermann Sudermann
  • Sixty years since, a little turn-up nose was universally regarded as a nose wholly unbefitting a poet.

    The Real Shelley, Vol. I (of 2) | John Cordy Jeaffreson
  • "A vulgarism not altogether unbefitting," said the Professor, stumbling along in the dark.