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misseeming

misseeming adjective: unseemly, unbecoming.

Adjective

misseeming (comparative more misseeming, superlative most misseeming)

  1. (archaic, literary) Unseemly, unbecoming.
    • Be therefore, O my deare Lords, pacifide, / And this misseeming discord meekely lay aside.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of misseeming

comparativemore misseeming
superlativemost misseeming

Origin of misseeming

From mis- + seeming.

Questions about misseeming

What does misseeming mean?
Misseeming means unseemly, unbecoming.
What part of speech is misseeming?
Misseeming is an adjective.

Words near misseeming in the dictionary

  1. misseek
  2. misseeking
  3. misseeks
  4. misseem
  5. misseemed
  6. misseeming
  7. misseems
  8. misseen
  9. missees
  10. missegmented
  11. missegregate

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