BEFITTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does befitting mean? 

• BEFITTING (adjective)
  The adjective BEFITTING has 1 sense:

1. appropriate to

  Familiarity information: BEFITTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEFITTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appropriate to

Context example:

behavior befitting a father

Similar:

appropriate (suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc)

 Context examples 

We have been unfortunate, and recent events have drawn us from that everyday tranquillity befitting my years and infirmities.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Associated with men; befitting or characteristic of a man.

(Masculine, NCI Thesaurus)

Associated with women; befitting or characteristic of a woman.

(Feminine, NCI Thesaurus)

In doing this, I underwent a kind of rough usage, ill befitting the wounds that my mind had sustained.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But these are not thoughts befitting me; I will endeavour to resign myself cheerfully to death and will indulge a hope of meeting you in another world.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)