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befittingadjective following the established traditions of refined society and good tastemany voters feel that the womanizing governor has not acted in a befitting manner for someone who serves as the state's chief executive correct, de rigueur, decent, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly acceptable, adequate, satisfactory, tolerabledress, dressy, formaldignified, elegant, graciouspriggish, prim, stiff, stuffyapt, material, relevantcompatible, congenial, harmoniousallowed, authorized, kosher, permitted improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, indelicate, unbecoming, ungenteel, unseemly intolerable, unacceptable, unsatisfactorycasual, grungy, informalseedy, shabby, tackybanned, barred, disallowedforbidden, interdicted, outlawed, prohibited, proscribedawkward, gauche, ungraceful meeting the requirements of a purpose or situationa befitting reply to a civil question applicable, appropriate, apt, becoming, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitting, good, happy, meet, pretty, proper, right, suitable condign, deserved, just, justifiedneeded, required, requisiteable, capable, competent, cut out, qualified, trainedpitch-perfectacceptable, adequate, decent, kosher, satisfactory, serviceable, tolerablecorrect, decorous, respectable, seemlybalanced, companionate, congruous, consonant, harmoniousrightful in order improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, incongruous, indecent, infelicitous, malapropos, misbecoming, unapt, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unfit, unfitting, unhappy, unmeet, unseemly, unsuitable, wrong incapable, incompetent, inept, inexpert, unqualified, unskilled, unskillful, untrainedinadequate, intolerable, unacceptable, unsatisfactorygraceless, incorrect, indecorousincompatible, uncongenial befittingverbpresent participle of befitto be fitting or properspoke politely of the deceased, as befitted the occasion beseeming(archaic), doing, fitting(archaic), going, serving, suiting satisfying, sufficingfunctioning, working filling the bill(or fitting the bill) ca. 1612 |