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becoming

[bih-kuhm-ing] / bɪˈkʌm ɪŋ /
ADJECTIVE
flattering
Synonyms
STRONG
enhancing fair welcome
WEAK
acceptable agreeable attractive beautiful comely cute effective excellent graceful handsome neat nice presentable pretty seemly tasteful well-chosen
Antonyms
WEAK
improper inappropriate indecorous tasteless ugly unattractive unbecoming unfitting unseemly unsuitable
ADJECTIVE
suitable; appropriate
Synonyms
STRONG
befitting conforming correct fit fitting right
WEAK
comme il faut compatible congruous decent decorous in keeping nice proper seemly worthy
Antonyms
STRONG
imprecise improper inaccurate inappropriate incorrect unfit unfitting unsuitable unsuited wrong
WEAK
indecorous tasteless ugly unattractive unbecoming unseemly

Example Sentences

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Trump sat in the front row for part of the oral arguments, becoming the first sitting president to attend such a hearing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

Speaking to the Sun, a passerby saw the bag on the side of a road and alerted her partner after becoming suspicious.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

But workers are worried about “FOBO” — the fear of becoming obsolete if artificial intelligence takes over their work.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

For instance, Grace uses his laptops, “waveform-analysis software” and Excel to prompt Rocky to identify numbers in his own language of notes and chords before eventually becoming fluent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

“You mean besides selling everything we own, becoming a nomad, and charging desperate people a ton of cash to help them?”

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.