Word Meanings - MISBECOME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.

Related words: (words related to MISBECOME)

• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• 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
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• BEFIT
  To be suitable to; to suit; to become. That name best befits thee. Milton.
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• ADAPTORIAL
  Adaptive.
• FATHERLESS
  1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
• ADAPTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
• ADAPTER
  A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.
• FATHERLY
  1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to a father.
• FATHER LONGLEGS
  See 2
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• GODFATHER
  A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for
• FOREFATHER
  One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day on
• COADAPTED
  Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.
• STEPFATHER
  The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.