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Word Meanings - INCANESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.

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  • CANESCENT
    Growing white, or assuming a color approaching to white.
  • 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
  • HOARY
    Of a pale silvery gray. (more info) 1. White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison. 2. White or gray with age; hoar; as, hoary hairs. Reverence the hoary head. Dr. T. Dwight. 3. Hence, remote in time past; as, hoary antiquity. 4. Moldy; mossy;
  • BECOMED
    Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
  • BECOMINGLY
    In a becoming manner.
  • BECOMINGNESS
    The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • INCANESCENT
    Becoming hoary or gray; canescent.
  • UNBECOME
    To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
  • MISBECOMING
    Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
  • 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.

 

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