Word Meanings - UNBECOMING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• 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.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• INDECOROUS
  Not decorous; violating good manners; contrary to good breeding or etiquette; unbecoming; improper; out of place; as, indecorous conduct. It was useless and indecorous to attempt anything more by mere struggle. Burke. Syn. -- Unbecoming; unseemly;
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• GRIEFFUL
  Full of grief or sorrow. Sackvingle.
• GRIEFLESS
  Without grief. Huloet.
• INDECOROUSLY
  In an indecorous manner.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• IMPROPERIA
  A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowful remonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• GRIEF
  gravis heavy; akin to Gr. , Skr. guru, Goth. karus. Cf. Barometer, 1. Pain of mind on account of something in the past; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends, misconduct of one's self or others, etc.;
• UNFIT
  Not fit; unsuitable. -- Un*fit"ly, adv. -- Un*fit"ness, n.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• IMPROPER
  1. Not proper; not suitable; not fitted to the circumstances, design, or end; unfit; not becoming; incongruous; inappropriate; indecent; as, an improper medicine; improper thought, behavior, language, dress. Follow'd his enemy king, and did him
• AGRIEF
  In grief; amiss. Chaucer.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.