Word Meanings - UNDERSTRAPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Becoming an understrapper; subservient. Sterne.
Related words: (words related to UNDERSTRAPPING)
- 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 - SUBSERVIENTLY
In a subservient manner. - BECOMED
Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak. - STERNER
A director. Dr. R. Clerke. - STERNED
Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned. - BECOMINGLY
In a becoming manner. - 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. - UNDERSTRAPPER
A petty fellow; an inferior agent; an underling. This was going to the fountain head at once, not applying to the understrappers. Goldsmith. - STERNEBRA
One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral, a. - SUBSERVIENT
Fitted or disposed to subserve; useful in an inferior capacity; serving to promote some end; subordinate; hence, servile, truckling. Scarce ever reading anything which he did not make subservient in one kind or other. Bp. Fell. These ranks - 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. - PINK-STERNED
Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel. - UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock. - MISBECOMING
Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle. - WESTERNER
A native or inhabitant of the west. - MISBECOME
Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison. - DISBECOME
To misbecome. Massinger.