Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

BESEEMING

Definitions: BESEEMING

BESEEMING

Adjective

1. Becoming; suitable.

Noun

1. Comeliness.

2. Appearance; look; garb.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Beseem

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BESEEMING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

 

Crosswords: BESEEMING

Etymologies containing "BESEEMING": Unbeseeming. (references)

Top     

Modern Translations: BESEEMING

Language Translations for "BESEEMING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

conveniente (advisable, appropriate, becoming, congenial, congruous, convenient, due, fitting, friendly gesture, handy man, of use, opportune, proper, propolis, rightdown, seasonable, seemly, suitable, timely, well timed, wieldy). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

conveniente (accordant, advisable, agreeable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, convenient, decent, due, expedient, fitting, meet, proper, seemly, suitable, unisonous, useful). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Derivations: BESEEMING

Derivations

Words ending with "BESEEMING": unbeseeming. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Top     

Anagrams: BESEEMING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-g-i-m-n-s"

-2 letters: besiege, enemies, seeming.

-3 letters: begins, beiges, beings, beseem, binges, genies, seeing, signee.

-4 letters: begin, beige, being, benes, bines, binge, geese, genes, genie, gibes, mense, mesne, miens, mines, neems, segni, seine, semen, sengi, siege, singe.

-5 letters: been, bees, begs, bene, bens, bigs, bine, bins, bise, egis, emes, engs, gees, gems, gene, gens, gibe, gibs, gien.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-g-i-m-n-s"
 

+2 letters: unbeseeming.

 

+3 letters: beguilements, embryogenies.

 

+4 letters: embryogenesis.

 

+5 letters: disremembering, misremembering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: BESEEMING


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 45 53 45 45 4D 49 4E 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    ...    .    .    --    ..    -.    --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000101 01010011 01000101 01000101 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#83 &#69 &#69 &#77 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0053 0045 0045 004D 0049 004E 0047

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

363953393947434841

Top     

 

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.