becoming

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/, /bɪˈkʊm.ɪŋɡ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/, /bəˈkʌm.ɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ

Verb

becoming

1. present participle and gerund of become

Noun

becoming (usually uncountable, plural becomings)

1. (chiefly philosophy) The act or process by which something becomes.
   • 2007, Una Chung, Contagion of Living:

     By tracing the turns from U.S. to Japan to China, we can see that becoming American, the classic ethnic American narrative, itself opens to further becomings and unbecomings and rebecomings that address mobility and ethnicization […]

Translations

The act or process by which something becomes

• Arabic: صَيْرُورَة f (ṣayrūra)
• Bengali: ভবন (bn) (bhobon)
• Catalan: esdevenir (ca)
• Danish: tilblivelse c
• French: devenir (fr)
• German: Werden (de) n
• Hungarian: valamivé levés, alakulás (hu), létesülés (hu), keletkezés (hu)
• Italian: divenire (it) m
• Portuguese: devir (pt)
• Spanish: devenir (es)

Adjective

becoming (comparative more becoming, superlative most becoming)

1. pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous; beautiful
   • 2022, Lucy Caldwell, These Days, Faber:

     This is our latest, said the salesgirl. Victory Red. Or here I've Carmine, which is very becoming on sallower skin like yours, so it is. If you don't mind me saying.

2. decent, respectable

Antonyms

• unbecoming

Translations

pleasingly suitable

• Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: պատշաճ (hy) (patšač)
• Bulgarian: подходящ (bg) (podhodjašt), подобаващ (bg) (podobavašt)
• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: sopiva (fi)
• German: passend (de), gut stehend
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍉𐍆 (gadōf)
• Greek: ταιριαστό (el) (tairiastó)

  Ancient: ἱκανός (hikanós)

• Hungarian: előnyös (hu), jól álló, való (hu)
• Irish: feiliúnach, fóirsteanach, maisiúil, mas, oiriúnach
• Japanese: 似合う (ja) (niau)
• Latin: consentaneus
• Norwegian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: twarzowy (pl)
• Portuguese: apropriado (pt), adequado (pt), favorável (pt)
• Swedish: klädsam (sv)

decent, respectable

• French: décent(e) m or f, respectable (fr) m or f
• German: anständig (de), geziemend (de)
• Hungarian: illő (hu), ildomos (hu), méltó (hu), helyénvaló (hu)
• Portuguese: decente (pt), respeitável (pt)
• Swedish: klädsam (sv)