Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: befitting
IPA transcription: [bɪf'ɪtɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: befitting
    Meaning: appropriate to; "behavior befitting a father"
Usage examples
  • Javert addressed the porter in a tone befitting the government, and the presence of the porter of a factious person.
  • Conversation of a sentimental sort, befitting the subject, was carried on between the songs, to which Sambo, after he had brought the tea, the delighted cook, and even Mrs. Blenkinsop, the housekeeper, condescended to listen on the landing-place.
  • I took the trouble this morning to call on the pretended count--if he were a real count he wouldn't be so rich. But, would you believe it, 'He was not receiving.' So the master of Monte Cristo gives himself airs befitting a great millionaire or a capricious beauty.
  • Now, also, it was becoming pretty plain that except the king yielded every prerogative, and became the puppet which the mingled pride and apprehension of the Parliament would have him, their differences must ere long be referred to the arbitration of the sword, in which case there was no shadow of doubt in the mind of the earl as to the part befitting a peer of the realm.