Definition for Befitting:

• appropriate to; " behavior befitting a father"

Synonyms for Befitting:

• adj.

  •agreeable (adjective)
  • be fitting,
  • more fitting.
  •all (adjective)
  • befitting.
  •applicable (adjective)
  • that idea,
  • that the ticket,
  • re-levant,
  • on button,
  • more associable,
  • that's the idea,
  • on nose,
  • that the idea,
  • more applicative,
  • that ticket,
  • most applicatory,
  • thats idea,
  • that's ticket,
  • more applicatory,
  • thats the ticket,
  • re levant,
  • to purpose,
  • the purpose,
  • to point,
  • most applicative,
  • that's idea,
  • most associable,
  • pertinent,
  • thats ticket,
  • thats the idea.
  •appropriate (adjective)
  • according to hoyle,
  • conforming,
  • right on,
  • Behooving,
  • what the doctor ordered,
  • kosher,
  • fitting,
  • Beseeming,
  • on the nose.
  •apropos (adjective)
  • re-lated,
  • re lated.
  •becoming (adjective)
  • be-coming.
  •decent (adjective)
  • on the up up,
  • on up,
  • on the and up,
  • virtuous,
  • on up up,
  • up-right,
  • un tarnished,
  • re served,
  • un-defiled,
  • de cent,
  • un defiled,
  • un-tarnished,
  • on and up,
  • un blemished,
  • de-cent,
  • on the up,
  • ethical,
  • on the up and up,
  • up right,
  • re-served,
  • un-blemished,
  • straight arrow.
  •decorous (adjective)
  • de mure,
  • re fined,
  • de-mure,
  • formal,
  • wellbehaved,
  • well behaved.
  •fit (adjective)
  • more correspondent,
  • pre-pared,
  • most correspondent,
  • pre pared,
  • de serving,
  • most desirable,
  • de-serving.
  •happy (adjective)
  • enviable.
  •proper (adjective)
  • by the book,
  • stoner,
  • in line,
  • by numbers,
  • prudish.
  •respectable (adjective)
  • Redoubted,
  • well-thought-of.
  •rightful (adjective)
  • twenty-four carat,
  • moralistic,
  • card-carrying,
  • holding water,
  • rightful.
  •suitable (adjective)
  • copacetic,
  • up to snuff,
  • in character,
  • geared to,
  • user friendly,
  • more suitable.

• n.

  •
  • felicitous,
  • correct,
  • tailor-made,
  • right.
  •
  • useful,
  • agree.
  •
  • courtesy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • de rigueur,
  • Comme Il Faut,
  • official.
  •
  • expedient,
  • convenient.
  •
  • comely.
  •
  • good.

Paraphrases for Befitting:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    appropriate.

• Forward Entailment

  • Adjective
    fitting.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    fit, proper, right.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    deserving, reflecting, fitting.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    adequate, suitable.

Antonyms for Befitting:

• adj.

  • appropriate
    unbecoming, unfit, unsuitable, imprecise, inaccurate, unfitting, incorrect, improper, wrong, unsuited, unseemly, inappropriate.
  • Other antonyms:
    informal, awkward, untrained, Misbecoming, unskillful, inexpert, uncongenial, unskilled, indecent, grungy, prohibited, inadequate, forbidden, banned, ungraceful, gauche, unqualified, intolerable, unsatisfactory, barred, inapplicable, incompetent, incapable, casual, tacky, incompatible, proscribed, Interdicted, Unmeet, indelicate, unacceptable, seedy, outlawed, shabby, Unbeseeming.

Befitting Sentence Examples:

• The two fathers had saved money in their hard - working and frugal lives, which was to lift the young people into a better social class than the parents had any wish to occupy, and each had managed to give to his child a degree of education befitting the advancement looked forward to in their future.

• But although the ambassadors were treated with every external consideration befitting their official rank, they were not likely to find themselves in the most genial atmosphere when they should come to business details.

Homophones for Befitting:

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