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Definition: Good Nature |
Good NatureNoun1. A cheerful, obliging disposition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: ill nature (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benevolence | Good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness; Adjective: loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy: goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love; friendship. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Good Nature |
| English words defined with "good nature": Bonhommie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "good nature": Honeywood. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Hmm, you dismiss her beauty and good nature, yet I would be very much mistaken, if your sex in general, does not think those claims the highest a woman could possess! (Emma; writing credit: Douglas McGrath) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Imposing on Good Nature (1919) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Author | Quotation |
Joseph Addison | Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty. |
Lord Chesterfield | Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | All this was said with a mixture of astonishment, and frank good nature. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
good nature company | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "good nature"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpirtmirësi (bonhomie, goodness, kindliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | добродушие (bonhomie, joviality, mellowness, placability), добрина (benignity, goodness, kindliness, kindness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dobromyslnost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | hyväluontoisuus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gutartigkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | jó természet (good humour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | doaieid (decency, evenness, seemliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oodgay aturenay blândeţe (benignity, clemency, docility, gentleness, good-heartedness, good-naturedness, meekness, mildness, softness, steadiness, tameness, tractability). (various references) добродушие (bonhomie, geniality). (various references) dobroćudnost. (various references) buen temperamento. (various references) god modighet, gemytlighet (cosiness, geniality), gemyt (disposition, temperament). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | facilitate. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outranged. | |
-2 letters: dragonet, outraged, outrange, ragouted, ratooned, trudgeon, unrooted. | |
-3 letters: aground, daunter, donator, dragnet, dragoon, duotone, gadroon, garoted, gaunter, granted, groaned, grouted, grunted, guerdon, natured, negator, odonate, odorant, oregano, orotund, outdare, outdoer, outdone, outdrag, outearn, outgone, outrage, outrang, outread, outrode, readout, rondeau, rootage, rotunda, tandoor, tangoed, tongued, tornado, trudgen, undergo, unrated, untread. | |
-4 letters: aerugo. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-n-o-o-r-t-u" | |
+2 letters: outorganized. | |
+4 letters: gastroduodenal. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Fiction 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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