BECOMINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does becomingly mean? 

• BECOMINGLY (adverb)
  The adverb BECOMINGLY has 1 sense:

1. in a becoming manner

  Familiarity information: BECOMINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BECOMINGLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a becoming manner

Context example:

she was becomingly dressed

Pertainym:

becoming (displaying or setting off to best advantage)

 Context examples 

And then his hat sat so well, and the innumerable capes of his greatcoat looked so becomingly important!

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

And then she had such a fine head of hair; raven-black and so becomingly arranged: a crown of thick plaits behind, and in front the longest, the glossiest curls I ever saw.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Sir Walter talked of his youngest daughter; Mr Elliot must give him leave to present him to his youngest daughter (there was no occasion for remembering Mary); and Anne, smiling and blushing, very becomingly shewed to Mr Elliot the pretty features which he had by no means forgotten, and instantly saw, with amusement at his little start of surprise, that he had not been at all aware of who she was.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)