becoming
English
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "UK" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/, /bɪˈkʊm.ɪŋɡ/
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /bɪˈkʌm.ɪŋ/, /bəˈkʌm.ɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file)
- Rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ
Verb
becoming
Noun
becoming (usually uncountable, plural becomings)
- (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
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Adjective
becoming (comparative more becoming, superlative most becoming)
- 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.
- decent, respectable
Antonyms
Translations
pleasingly suitable
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