Word Meanings - SEEMLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous. He had a seemly nose. Chaucer. I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons. Shak. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity

Additional info about word: SEEMLY

Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous. He had a seemly nose. Chaucer. I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons. Shak. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. Hooker. Syn. -- Becoming; fit; suitable; proper; appropriate; congruous; meet; decent; decorous. (more info) fr. s becoming, fit; akin to samr same, E. same; the sense being

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEEMLY)

• Becoming
• Beseeming
• neat
• fit
• proper
• decorous
• comely
• seemly
• befitting
• graceful
• decent
• suitable
• improving
• Comely
• Seemly
• elegant
• shapely
• fitting
• handsome
• becoming
• Fit
• Decent
• meet
• apt
• adapted
• appropriate
• qualified
• congruous
• peculiar
• particular
• prepared
• adequate
• calculated
• contrived
• expedient
• ripe
• Picturesque
• scenic
• artistic
• pictorial
• graphic
• Suitable
• Proper
• eligible
• agreeable
• convenient
• accordant
• competent
• correspondent
• harmonious
• uniform
• homogeneous

Related words: (words related to SEEMLY)

• PECULIARIZE
  To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• QUALIFICATION
  1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• COMELY
  comeliche, AS. cymlic; cyme suitable + 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• CALCULATED
  1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
• GRACEFUL
  Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• QUALIFIED
  1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• ELIGIBLE
  1. That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office. 2. Worthy to be chosen or selected; suitable; desirable; as, an eligible situation for a house. The more eligible of the two
• QUALIFIER
  , One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
  Pertaining to petrography.
• INDECOROUSNESS
  The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
• STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
  Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
• 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.
• PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
  Pantographic. See Pantograph.
• PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• PHYTOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to phytography.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• STEREOGRAPHICALLY
  In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• EPIGRAPHIC; EPIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
• HETEROGRAPHIC
  Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.