Word Meanings - UNGUESTLIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a manner not becoming to a guest. Milton.
Related words: (words related to UNGUESTLIKE)
- 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 - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - BECOMED
Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak. - GUEST
gust, Icel gestr, Sw. gäst, Dan. Gjäst, Goth. gast, Russ. goste, and to L. hostis enemy, stranger; the meaning stranger is the older one, 1. A visitor; a person received and entertained in one's house or at one's table; a visitor entertained - BECOMINGLY
In a becoming manner. - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - BECOMINGNESS
The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - GUEST ROPE
The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. Ham. Nav. Encyc. - 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. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - GUESTWISE
In the manner of a guest. - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - 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. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - UNBECOME
To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock. - TONGUESTER
One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson. - MISBECOMING
Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology. - ILL-MANNERED
Impolite; rude. - WELL-MANNERED
Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden. - 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.