Behoove

Quick meaning: Behoove is a verb meaning (transitive, chiefly US) To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove.

Meaning

(transitive, chiefly US) To befit, be appropriate or necessary to somebody. Alternative form of behove.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To be fitting.

Example Sentences

It ill behooves my mother to complain.

Straighter he stood, and had achieved some praise / In other exercise, much more behooving / A soldier's taste than merely dirt removing.

Now, while discoursing of sperm, it behooves to speak of other things akin to it, in the business of preparing the sperm whale for the try-works.

I think it ill behooves the Government of Canada, let alone all the people like us in Canada, to pretend that there are not these distinctions in how each of us approaches questions of security.

Word Forms

• behooves
• behooving
• behooved
• behooven

Synonyms for behoove

Depending on context, synonyms include behove.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include behove, byhove, become, seem, besuit, besort.

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