Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Appropriate, suitable, or proper.
- adj. Pleasing or attractive to the eye.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fit; suitable; congruous; proper; belonging to the character, or adapted to the circumstances: formerly sometimes followed by of.
- Suitable to the appearance or style of; be-fitting esthetically: as, a becoming dress. Synonyms Meet, appropriate, fitting, seemly, comely, decent.
- n. Something worn as an ornament.
- n. That which is suitable, fit, or appropriate.
- 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
- v. present participle of become.
- n. The act or process in which something becomes.
- adj. pleasingly suitable to the particular person involved.
- adj. decent, respectable
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
- n. obsolete That which is becoming or appropriate.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. according with custom or propriety
- adj. displaying or setting off to best advantage
Examples
“The film cost $40 million, which means that Universal will have to hope for uncommonly strong legs as well as the title becoming a casual family rental choice over the next several years.”
“Her smile faded as he left the house, her expression becoming serious with concern.”
“He sighed, looking toward the woman, his expression becoming more serious.”
“My house burnded down, he says, his expression becoming utterly grave.”
“Then he canted his head to the side, his expression becoming pensive, his gaze faraway.”
“He turned to face Koloth, his expression becoming haunted as he thought of young Stephen Garrovick.”
“Vash groaned in frustration, her expression becoming almost that of a wild creature held against its will.”
“He shrugged, his expression becoming almost playful.”
“He pointed at the slave and closed his eyes, his expression becoming one of deep inner concentration.”
“Her attention switched to Trace, her expression becoming a little distant.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘becoming’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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NTDW2
yawp, amidships, smug, jounce, fallow, conscionable, polyp, whit, nouveau riche, palatial, encomiastic, exchequer and 182 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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the indelible ink of personality
nefarious, mischievious, bawdy, intense, blunt, steadfast, succulent, edible, nature, creature, truth, touch and 28 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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Words of Praise
Please contribute lots of panegyrical words—preferably such that are of universal use.
gorgeous, flamboyant, grand, magnificent, iridescent, incandescent, splendorous, coruscating, immaculate, magniloquent, sublime, scintillating and 33 more...
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magoosh1
aberration, aboveboard, abysmal, ace, affable, aghast, alacrity, ambiguous, ambivalent, ameliorate, amenable, amiable and 215 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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cindywrites's Words
chiaroscuro, mollycoddle, feckless, evocative, provocative, invocation, beckon, allay, becalm, console, lull, soothe and 479 more...
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collection
sanguine, vie, antebellum, glacial, treacly, iconoclast, lissom, anathema, serendipity, parsimonious, histrionic, contemptuous and 279 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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My Revised GRE Preparation List
Words from the new GRE : This list consists mostly of words from the book Magoosh-GRE-vocab-ebook, which is one of the best vocab materials available, especially if you have started preparing one ...
mulct, dupe, pittance, stipend, defray, cupidity, avarice, prodigal, profligate, affluent, insolvent, penurious and 533 more...
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Cage
cage, depart, nothing, void, strain, unconscious, never, alone, floor, God, hell, winter and 219 more...
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snickclunk's Words
bespoke, freshet, coquette, lath, victrola, feckless, viridian, lariat, sargasso, sobriquet, grift, sophistry and 134 more...
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From Book - SAT & College Dictionary ...
ebb, exotic, immure, abeyance, panegyric, debonair, protege, dissipate, frantic, penitent, abject, edify and 871 more...
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aparrish's Words
the, this, and, a, that, i, me, you, him, her, she, he and 96 more...
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