詞源

來自 +‎ 。對照中古英語 (“不適當”)。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˌʌnbɪˈkʌmɪŋ/

形容詞

(比較級，最高級)

1. 不恰當的，不得體的
   • 1934, , 章號 3, 出自 Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, 出版於 2017，頁號 25:

     A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.

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   • 2017 7月 12, Moe! Ninja Girls, Japan: NTT Solmare, 經由 iOS, Android，幕：Season 7, Chapter 7, Part 2:

     ― Lily: “Don’t stare so much. It’s unbecoming. It makes you look like a country bumpkin.”

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   She wore a rather unbecoming hairstyle.

   她理了个不太得体的发型。

2. 不相稱的

   He was accused of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

   他被指責行為不紳士，有損官員身份。

動詞

1. 的现在分詞

名詞

(複數)

1. 變得不合適
   • 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 […]

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延伸閱讀

• “unbecoming”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “unbecoming”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 unbecoming 的释义