becoming

/bi'kʌmiɳ/

Thân thiện

She chose a becoming shade of blue for her dress.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Displaying or setting off to best advantage: Making someone or something look attractive or appropriate; enhancing appearance.
   • According with custom or propriety: Suitable, appropriate, or fitting in terms of behavior, manners, or social norms.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She wore a very becoming dress to the party. (The dress made her look attractive.)
  • His calm demeanor was becoming for a leader in a crisis. (His calm manner was appropriate and fitting.)
  • It is not becoming to speak with your mouth full. (It is not proper or suitable behavior.)

Advanced Usage

• "Becoming to/for someone/something": Used to indicate that something suits or is appropriate for a person or situation.
  • That hairstyle is very becoming to her face shape.
  • Such arrogance is not becoming for a public servant.

Variants and Related Words

• Become (verb): To begin to be; to suit or look good on someone.
  • He became a teacher.
  • That color becomes you. (That color suits you.)
• Becomingly (adverb): In a becoming or appropriate manner.
  • She smiled becomingly.

Synonyms

• Appropriate: Suitable or proper in the circumstances.
• Comely: Pleasant to look at; attractive (often used of a person's appearance).
• Decent: Conforming with generally accepted standards of respectability; appropriate.
• Seemly: Conforming to propriety or good taste; suitable.
• Fitting: Suitable or appropriate under the circumstances.

Idioms and Phrases

• "To become of": (Phrasal verb from the root 'become') To happen to someone or something.
  • What will become of the old building?
• "Becoming modesty": A phrase describing modesty that is appropriate and admirable.
  • She accepted the award with becoming modesty.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. displaying or setting off to best advantage
   • a becoming new shade of rose
   • a becoming portrait
2. according with custom or propriety
   • her becoming modesty
   • comely behavior
   • it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money
   • a decent burial
   • seemly behavior

Từ đồng nghĩa

• comely
• comme il faut
• decent
• decorous
• seemly