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| Main Entry: | becoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, agreeable, attractive, beautiful, comely, cute, effective, excellent, fair, graceful, handsome, neat, nice, presentable, pretty, seemly, tasteful, welcome, enhancing, well-chosen |
| Antonyms: | indecorous, tasteless, ugly, unattractive, unbecoming, unsuitable, unfitting |
| Main Entry: | becoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suitable; appropriate |
| Synonyms: | befitting, compatible, conforming, congruous, correct, decent, decorous, fit, fitting, nice, proper, right, seemly, worthy, comme il faut, in keeping |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, unbecoming, unseemly, unsuitable, unfitting |
| Main Entry: | become |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | evolve into |
| Synonyms: | come, convert, incline, mature, metamorphose, shift, turn out, wax, alter to, assume form of, be converted to, be reduced to, be reformed, be remodeled, be transformed into, change into, come to be, develop into, emerge as, eventually be, grow into, pass into, ripen into, turn into |
| Main Entry: | become |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enhance |
| Synonyms: | accord, adorn, agree, augment, display, embellish, enrich, fit, flatter, garnish, grace, harmonize, heighten, match, ornament, suit, be appropriate, belong to, go together, go with, make handsome, set off |
| Main Entry: | appropriate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suitable |
| Synonyms: | adapted, applicable, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, belonging, congruous, convenient, correct, deserved, due, felicitous, fit, fitting, germane, good, just, on the nose*, opportune, pertinent, proper, relevant, right, rightful, seemly, tailor-made, true, useful, well-timed, appurtenant, desired, on the button, well-suited |
| Antonyms: | improper, unbecoming, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited, unfitting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | befitting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate |
| Synonyms: | according to Hoyle*, apt, becoming, conforming, correct, decent, decorous, felicitous, fit, fitting, happy, just, kosher*, nice, on the nose*, proper, right, seemly, suitable, behooving, beseeming, comme il faut, on the button, right on, what the doctor ordered |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, incorrect, unbecoming, unsuitable, unfitting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful |
| Synonyms: | attractive, becoming, blooming, buxom, fair, fine, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, handsome, nice, pleasing, pretty, stunning, wholesome, winsome, a ten, beauteous, pulchritudinous |
| Antonyms: | despicable, disagreeable, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, ugly, unattractive, bad-looking |
| Main Entry: | congruous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corresponding, suitable |
| Synonyms: | accordant, appropriate, apt, becoming, coincidental, compatible, congruent, consistent, consonant, correspondent, fit, fitting, harmonious, meet, proper, seemly, sympathetic, concordant |
| Notes: | congruent means 'agreeing or corresponding with' in a strict, technical sense while congruous indicates that the correspondence is looser, more general |
| Antonyms: | disagreeing, incongruous, unsuitable, unfitting, unharmonious |
| Main Entry: | decorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate, suitable |
| Synonyms: | au fait, becoming, befitting, ceremonial, ceremonious, civilized, comely, conforming, conventional, correct, de rigueur, decent, demure, dignified, done, elegant, fit, fitting, formal, good, mannerly, meet, moral, nice, polite, prim, proper, punctilious, refined, respectable, right, seasonable, sedate, seemly, staid, well-behaved, comme il faut |
| Antonyms: | impolite, inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, unfit, unrefined, unseemly, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | de rigeur |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | proper, right |
| Synonyms: | au fait, becoming, conventional, correct, decent, decorous, done, fitting, necessary, required, comme il faut |
| Antonyms: | improper, wrong |
| Main Entry: | eligible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fit, worthy |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, appropriate, becoming, desirable, discretionary, elective, fitted, licensed, likely, preferable, privileged, proper, qualified, satisfactory, seemly, suitable, suited, trained, usable, capable of, employable, equal to, in line for, in the running, up to |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, ineligible, unfit, unsuitable, unsuited, unworthy |
| Main Entry: | fitting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate, suitable |
| Synonyms: | applicable, apt, becoming, comme il faut, correct, decent, decorous, desirable, due, felicitous, happy, just, just what was ordered, meet, on the button, on the nose*, proper, right, right on, seemly, that's the ticket |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, incorrect, unfitting, unseemly, unsuitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | graceful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agile, charming, lovely |
| Synonyms: | adroit, aesthetic, artistic, beautiful, becoming, comely, curvaceous, dainty, decorative, delicate, dexterous, easy, elastic, elegant, exquisite, fair, fine, flowing, handsome, harmonious, limber, lissome, lithe, natural, neat, nimble, pleasing, pliant, practiced, pretty, refined, rhythmic, seemly, shapely, skilled, slender, smooth, springy, statuesque, supple, symmetrical, tasteful, trim, willowy, balletic, controlled, poised |
| Antonyms: | awkward, careless, graceless, inept, uncouth, ungraceful, unhandy |
| Main Entry: | presentable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectable; fit to be seen |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, attractive, becoming, decent, fit, okay*, passable, prepared, proper, satisfactory, suitable, tolerable, good enough, not bad |
| Antonyms: | ugly, unacceptable, unfit, unpresentable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | relevant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate; to the purpose |
| Synonyms: | accordant, admissible, allowable, applicable, apposite, apt, becoming, cognate, compatible, concerning, conforming, congruent, congruous, consistent, consonant, correspondent, fit, fitting, germane, harmonious, important, material, on the nose*, pat*, pertinent, proper, referring, related, relative, significant, suitable, suited, weighty, ad rem, applicatory, appurtenant, conformant, correlated, having direct bearing on, having to do with, on the button, pertaining to, pointful, to the point |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, irrelevant, unsuitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | seemly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate, suitable |
| Synonyms: | becoming, befitting, compatible, conforming, congenial, congruous, consistent, consonant, correct, decent, decorous, fit, fitting, meet, nice, pleasing, proper, suited, timely, comme il faut, in good taste |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, unseemly, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | suitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate, acceptable |
| Synonyms: | advisable, applicable, apposite, apt, becoming, befitting, commodious, convenient, correct, cut out for*, deserved, due, expedient, felicitous, fit, fitting, good, handy, happy, just, kosher*, meet, merited, nice, okay*, opportune, peachy, pertinent, politic, presentable, proper, reasonable, relevant, requisite, right, righteous, rightful, satisfactory, seemly, sufficient, suited, swell, useful, condign, copacetic, good enough, in character, in keeping, legit, up to snuff, user friendly |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, irrelevant, unacceptable, unsuitable, unfitting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | to |
| Part of Speech: | preposition6 |
| Definition: | indicating results |
| Synonyms: | back, becoming, until, ending with |
| Main Entry: | decent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectable, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | approved, becoming, befitting, chaste, clean, comely, conforming, continent, correct, decorous, delicate, ethical, fit, fitting, good, honest, honorable, immaculate, mannerly, modest, moral, nice, noble, polite, presentable, proper, prudent, pure, reserved, right, seemly, spotless, stainless, standard, straight, straight arrow*, suitable, trustworthy, unblemished, undefiled, untarnished, upright, virtuous, worthy, comme il faut, on the up and up, straight shooting |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, indecent, poor, unsuitable, unsuited, unrespectable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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