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adjective that suits or gives a pleasing effect or attractive appearance, as to a person or thing: a becoming dress; a becoming hairdo.
suitable; appropriate; proper: a becoming sentiment.
noun any process of change.
Aristotelianism . any change involving realization of potentialities, as a movement from the lower level of potentiality to the higher level of actuality.
Origin of becoming First recorded in 1555–65; become + -ing1 , -ing2
SYNONYMS FOR becoming 1 comely.
2 fitting, meet, fit, apt, right, decorous, congruous, seemly.
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Was I becoming a ones-and-zeros, bits-and-bytes version of my mother?
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Becoming impatient of this delay, Madame Nelson pressed them for an explanation.
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She had never owned anything so fine, and certainly it was most becoming .
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This accounted for it becoming so instantaneously invisible.
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The world, having tried everything else, is becoming convinced that no Golden Rule alone will be the savior.
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It does not rob his joy of one rapture, but it keeps it from becoming careless.
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British Dictionary definitions for becoming noun any process of change
(in the philosophy of Aristotle) any change from the lower level of potentiality to the higher level of actuality
Derived forms of becoming becomingly , adverb becomingness , noun Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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