Synonyms of befitting

befitting 1 of 2

adjective

bi-ˈfi-tiŋ 

1

as in proper

following the established traditions of refined society and good taste

many voters feel that the womanizing governor has not acted in a befitting manner for someone who serves as the state's chief executive

Synonyms & Similar Words

• proper
• polite
• respectable
• acceptable
• satisfactory
• decorous
• nice
• correct
• decent
• formal
• adequate
• elegant
• genteel
• seemly
• dress
• dignified
• gracious
• relevant
• tolerable
• de rigueur
• apt
• congenial
• permitted
• prim
• compatible
• stuffy
• authorized
• dressy
• harmonious
• priggish
• allowed
• kosher
• material
• stiff

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improper
• inappropriate
• unbecoming
• unseemly
• incorrect
• unacceptable
• unsatisfactory
• indecent
• intolerable
• indelicate
• informal
• casual
• shabby
• indecorous
• barred
• prohibited
• tacky
• forbidden
• seedy
• ungenteel
• grungy
• disallowed
• proscribed
• awkward
• gauche
• outlawed
• banned
• ungraceful
• interdicted

2

as in appropriate

meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation

a befitting reply to a civil question

Synonyms & Similar Words

• appropriate
• suitable
• fitting
• proper
• fit
• fitted
• good
• applicable
• happy
• meet
• becoming
• pretty
• apt
• in order
• acceptable
• adequate
• right
• felicitous
• balanced
• needed
• required
• deserved
• satisfactory
• capable
• justified
• decent
• requisite
• able
• decorous
• competent
• just
• qualified
• correct
• respectable
• condign
• serviceable
• rightful
• tolerable
• trained
• harmonious
• seemly
• kosher
• cut out
• consonant
• congruous
• pitch-perfect
• companionate

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unbecoming
• improper
• inappropriate
• incongruous
• wrong
• unseemly
• unsuitable
• unfitting
• unfit
• inapplicable
• indecent
• unhappy
• incapable
• inapt
• inadequate
• incompetent
• unacceptable
• unsatisfactory
• unskilled
• unqualified
• inapposite
• intolerable
• untrained
• inept
• unmeet
• unapt
• infelicitous
• inexpert
• unbeseeming
• unskillful
• misbecoming
• incorrect
• malapropos
• indecorous
• incompatible
• graceless
• uncongenial

befitting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of befit

as in fitting

to be fitting or proper

spoke politely of the deceased, as befitted the occasion

Synonyms & Similar Words

• fitting
• suiting
• sufficing
• serving
• doing
• beseeming
• going
• satisfying
• filling the bill
• working
• functioning

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of befitting

Adjective

If there was ever a notion that profanity isn’t befitting of the nation’s highest office, that standard has largely eroded. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026

Not only is the snowfall seemingly more befitting of January or February, but the temperatures are too. — Tara Molina, CBS News, 2 Dec. 2025

Verb

But four years later, Jost and Davidson have finally found an idea befitting their strange investment. — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 1 Sep. 2026

DeWitt’s narrator is a teenage girl whose demanding mother insists on proper upper-class behavior, befitting a young, wealthy Englishwoman. — Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026