becoming

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
becoming/bɪˈkʌmɪŋ/

▶adjective

• 1 (of clothing) looking well on someone.

• 2 decorous.

– derivatives
becomingly adverb,
becomingness noun.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
become/bɪˈkʌm/

▶verb (becomes, becoming; past became; past part. become)

• 1 begin to be.

  ■ develop into.

  ■ (of a person) qualify or be accepted as.

  ■ (become of) (in questions) happen to.

• 2 (of clothing) look well on.

  ■ be appropriate to (someone).

– origin OE becuman ‘come to a place, come to be or do something’ (see be-, come), of Gmc origin.