becoming

becoming
becomingly, adv.becomingness, n.
/bi kum"ing/, adj.
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.
n.
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.
[1555-65; BECOME + -ING1, -ING2]
Syn. 1. comely. 2. fitting, meet, fit, apt, right, decorous, congruous, seemly.

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