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Word Meanings - BEFITTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suitable; proper; becoming; fitting.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • PECULIARIZE
    To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
  • SUITABILITY
    The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • IMPROVISATRICE
    See IMPROVVISATRICE
  • SUITRESS
    A female supplicant. Rowe.
  • QUALIFICATION
    1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
  • BESEEMING
    1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
  • SUITING
    Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
  • COMELY
    comeliche, AS. cymlic; cyme suitable + 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • APPERTINENT
    Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • CONSTITUTIONALIST
    One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
  • CALCULATED
    1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
  • GRACEFUL
    Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
  • RELEVANTLY
    In a relevant manner.
  • QUALIFIED
    1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
  • QUALIFIER
    , One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
  • PREREQUISITE
    Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success.
  • INDECOROUSNESS
    The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • UNBECOMING
    Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
  • UNSEEMLY
    Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
  • DEMISUIT
    A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.

 

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