becoming

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Appropriate, suitable, or proper.
2. adj. Pleasing or attractive to the eye.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Fit; suitable; congruous; proper; belonging to the character, or adapted to the circumstances: formerly sometimes followed by of.
2. Suitable to the appearance or style of; be-fitting esthetically: as, a becoming dress. Synonyms Meet, appropriate, fitting, seemly, comely, decent.
3. n. Something worn as an ornament.
4. n. That which is suitable, fit, or appropriate.
5. n. In metaphysics, the transition from non-existence into existence; an intermediate state between being and not being; a state of flux; the state of that which begins to be, but does not endure; change; development: opposed to being.

Wiktionary

1. v. present participle of become.
2. n. The act or process in which something becomes.
3. adj. pleasingly suitable to the particular person involved.
4. adj. decent, respectable

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
2. n. That which is becoming or appropriate.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. according with custom or propriety
2. adj. displaying or setting off to best advantage