becoming

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /bɪˈkʌmɪŋ/, /bɪˈkʊmɪŋɡ/
(US) IPA^(key): /bəˈkʌmɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file)

Rhymes: -ʌmɪŋ

Verb

becoming

present participle of become

Noun

becoming (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

Arabic: صَيْرُورَة‎‎ f (ṣayrūra)
Bengali: ভবন (bhôbôn)
Catalan: esdevenir (ca)
French: devenir (fr)

German: Werden n
Italian: divenire (it) m
Portuguese: devir (pt)
Spanish: devenir (es)

Adjective

becoming (comparative more becoming, superlative most becoming)

pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous
decent, respectable

Antonyms

unbecoming

Translations

pleasingly suitable

Armenian: պատշաճ (hy) (patšač)
Bulgarian: подходящ (bg) (podhodjašt), подобаващ (bg) (podobavašt)
Finnish: sopiva (fi)
German: passend (de), gut stehend

Greek: ταιριαστό (el) (tairiastó)
Irish: feiliúnach, fóirsteanach, maisiúil, mas, oiriúnach
Japanese: 似合う (ja) (niau)

decent, respectable

German: anständig (de), geziemend (de)

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