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seeliest |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Seemly \Seem"ly\, a. [Compar.{Seemlier}; superl. {Seeliest}.] [Icel. s?miligr, fr s?mr becoming, fit akin to samr same E. same the sense being properly, the same or like hence fitting. See {Seem}, v. i.] Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character; suitable; fit becoming; comely; decorous. He had a seemly nose. --Chaucer. I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons. --Shak. Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies. --Hooker. Syn: Becoming; fit suitable; proper; appropriate; congruous; meet decent; decorous.