Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Appropriate; suitable; proper.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- ‘Of a suitable kind or character; fit; proper; becoming: as, befitting words; a befitting dress or manner.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of befit.
- adj. appropriate, becoming
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. appropriate to
Examples
“He also wore an expression befitting a totally innocent man and revealed just the proper degree of shock, his eyes opening wider, when Van Sant asked him, “Did you kill your wife?””
“The Gossip Girl a title befitting the appearance of the new rising star Lady Gaga, with a luster performance that stole the show at SNL, fans are looking forward to the episode with our Princes Diva.”
“I'm surprised Hutchinson didn't write under the pseudonym, TRUSTUS, a label befitting a man who held a plurality of key offices.”
“American Classic, a title befitting the artist himself, finds Willie Nelson returning to the Great American Songbook in a sequel to his best-selling crossover album”
““I need a name befitting my status, and I can’t think of one that does the job half as well as Romulus.””
“A certain befitting gravity should grace the occasion," Chris agreed, placing his hand on Planchette.”
“Jets wide receivers Braylon Edwards and Santonio Holmes recently christened themselves the " Flight Boys, " a nickname befitting teammates who have aspired to reach the height of their profession this season, if not the height of hubris.”
“It's a media-centric term befitting the central role of right-wing blogs as media critics: Robert Fisk was the first big-time reporter whose reputation was destroyed by the meticulous fact-checking of right-wing bloggers.”
About that "scalping"... and other blogospheric collective activities.
“It was a name befitting a goddess: Dementia, who caused her sister Demeter to forget to turn winter into spring.”
The Bonesetter's Daughter
“It was an "explosive device," a euphemism befitting a neighborhood where years of false alarms in the markets have taught the locals not to take trouble too seriously.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘befitting’.
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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positive words
agency, amenable, apposite, auspicious, befitting, blithesome, ubiquitous, capacious, cogent, perspicacious
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Great Race Horse Names7
More poetry in motion
generalissimo, pensiveness, stilled, adagio, reversible error, jelly roll, as do i, aforementioned, typhoon tycoon, stepaside, menacing, unstoppable me and 79 more...
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My Wordchart
This is collection of words collected from everyday readings of NewsPaper, books and other sources.
guru, outrageous, asylum, Holocaust, befitting, RSVP, paramour
Tweets
Looking for tweets for befitting.
qroqqa Previously almost invariably transitive; since 1960 however the construction 'befitting of' has greatly increased in popularity. Although Google Books still has it as only minute in numbers by 2000, today's Web shows it coming on very strong.
This is the first comment I have made here using information from the Ngram Viewer. Jan 25, 2011