Seemly

Origin

Middle English semely.

Full definition of seemly

Adjective

1. (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.His behavior was seemly, as befits a gentleman.
• ShakespeareI am a woman, lacking wit
  To make a seemly answer to such persons.
• HookerSuspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

Synonyms

• apposite

Antonyms

• unseemly

Derived terms

• seemliness

Adverb

1. Appropriately, fittingly.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:The great earthes wombe they open to the sky,
  And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue ....