Be*com"ing, a.

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.

A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.

Formerly sometimes followed by of.

Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden.

Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.

 

© Webster 1913.


Be*com"ing, n.

That which is becoming or appropriate.

[Obs.]

 

© Webster 1913.

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