Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flattering |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, agreeable, attractive, beautiful, comely, cute, effective, enhancing, excellent, fair, graceful, handsome, neat, nice, presentable, pretty, seemly, tasteful, welcome, well-chosen |
| Antonyms: | indecorous, tasteless, ugly, unattractive, unbecoming, unfitting, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | become |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | evolve into |
| Synonyms: | alter to, assume form of, be converted to, be reduced to, be reformed, be remodeled, be transformed into, change into, come, come to be, convert, develop into, emerge as, eventually be, grow into, incline, mature, metamorphose, pass into, ripen into, shift, turn into, turn out, wax |
| Main Entry: | become |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enhance |
| Synonyms: | accord, adorn, agree, augment, be appropriate, belong to, display, embellish, enrich, fit, flatter, garnish, go together, go with, grace, harmonize, heighten, make handsome, match, ornament, set off, suit |
| Main Entry: | appropriate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suitable |
| Synonyms: | adapted, applicable, appurtenant, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, belonging, congruous, convenient, correct, deserved, desired, due, felicitous, fit, fitting, germane, good, just, on the button, on the nose, opportune, pertinent, proper, relevant, right, rightful, seemly, tailor-made, true, useful, well-suited, well-timed |
| Antonyms: | improper, unbecoming, unfitting, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited |
| Main Entry: | befitting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate |
| Synonyms: | according to Hoyle, apt, becoming, behooving, beseeming, comme il faut, conforming, correct, decent, decorous, felicitous, fit, fitting, happy, just, kosher*, nice, on the button, on the nose, proper, right, right on, seemly, suitable, what the doctor ordered |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, incorrect, unbecoming, unfitting, unsuitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | comely |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beautiful |
| Synonyms: | a ten, attractive, beauteous, becoming, blooming, buxom, fair, fine, good-looking, gorgeous, graceful, handsome, nice, pleasing, pretty, pulchritudinous, stunning, wholesome, winsome |
| Antonyms: | bad-looking, despicable, disagreeable, offensive, repellent, repulsive, revolting, ugly, unattractive |
| Main Entry: | congruous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corresponding, suitable |
| Synonyms: | accordant, appropriate, apt, becoming, coincidental, compatible, concordant, congruent, consistent, consonant, correspondent, fit, fitting, harmonious, meet, proper, seemly, sympathetic |
| Notes: | congruent means 'agreeing or corresponding with' in a strict, technical sense while congruous indicates that the correspondence is looser, more general |
| Antonyms: | disagreeing, incongruous, unfitting, unharmonious, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | correct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | proper, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, becoming, careful, comme il faut, conforming, conventional, decent, decorous, diplomatic, done, fitting, meticulous, nice, okay, punctilious, right, right stuff, scrupulous, seemly, standard, suitable |
| Antonyms: | improper, inappropriate, incorrect, unfitting, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | decent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | respectable, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | approved, becoming, befitting, chaste, clean, comely, comme il faut, conforming, continent, correct, decorous, delicate, ethical, fit, fitting, good, honest, honorable, immaculate, mannerly, modest, moral, nice, noble, on the up and up, polite, presentable, proper, prudent, pure, reserved, right, seemly, spotless, stainless, standard, straight, straight arrow, straight shooting, suitable, trustworthy, unblemished, undefiled, untarnished, upright, virtuous, worthy |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, indecent, poor, unrespectable, unsuitable, unsuited |
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