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Definition: Good-humored |
Good-humoredAdjective1. Disposed to please; "an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"- Hal Hinson. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "good-humored" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
Synonyms: Good-humoredSynonyms: amiable (adj), good-humoured (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benevolence | Adjective: benevolent; kind, kindly; well-meaning; amiable; obliging, accommodating, indulgent, gracious, complacent, good-humored. |
Courtesy | Ingratiating, winning; gentle, mild; good-humored, cordial, gracious, affable, familiar; neighborly. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Good-humored |
| English words defined with "good-humored": Spalpeen. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Language | Translations for "good-humored"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, lively, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), добродушен (avuncular, easygoing, good hearted, good humoured, good natured, good tempered, jovial, kind, mellow, pickwickian, placable). (various references) | |
Czech | v dobré náladì, dobromyslný (good natured, good tempered), bodrý (jovial). (various references) | |
German | gutmütig (amiable, benevolent, easygoing, good humoured, good natured, of good nature, soft). (various references) | |
Hungarian | kedélyes (jovial, mellow), derûs (cheery, gamesome, genial, good humoured, hilarious, jocund, jovial, serene). (various references) | |
Italian | di buon umore, affabile (affable, amiable, condescending, debonair, fair, good humoured, gracious, kindly, obliging). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ood-humoredgay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | amável (kind, friendly), agradável (agreeable, enjoyable, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable). (various references) | |
Romanian | cordial (cordial, cordially, genial, good humoured, heart-felt, hearty, kind, responsive, sincere, stimulating, true, warm, whole heartedly, whole-hearted), bine dispus (cheerful, crank, debonair, full of beans, full-blooded, good humoured, in good spirits, jolly, merry, mettlesome, tails up, well disposed). (various references) | |
Russian | добродушный (amiable, debonair, easygoing, good humoured, good natured, good-humoured, good-natured, well-natured). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | raspoložen (cheerful, exhilarated, gamesome, good humoured, lighthearted, rhapsodic), dobroćudan (benevolent, benign, good humoured, good natured, good tempered, well-natured). (various references) | |
Spanish | de buen humor (good humoured, jocose). (various references) | |
Swedish | gladlynt (cheerful), gemytlig (cosy, genial), älskvärd (affable, complaisant, debonair, gracious, winsome). (various references) | |
Thai | อารมณ์ดี (good-tempered). (various references) | |
Turkish | güler yüzlü (genial, good humoured), uysal (accommodating, acquiescent, agreeable, amenable, Clement, compliant, demiss, docile, ductile, easy, easygoing, facile, flexible, flexile, gentle, good humoured, good tempered, lamblike, malleable, manageable, meek, milky, peaceful, pliant, soft, squeezable, submissive, supple, sweet-tempered, tame, toward, tractable, yielding). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | добродушний (debonair, genial, good humoured, well-natured, well-tempered). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vui vẻ (blithe, blithesome, boon, canty, cheery, chirk, debonair, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, good-humoured, heartily, hearty, hilarious, jocular, jocund, jolly, jovial, laughing, merrily, mirthful, pleasant, sportful), vui tính (chirpy, good-humoured, jovial, sonsie, sonsy, sportive), dễ dãi (accommodating, good-humoured). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "good-humored" (pronounced 'Good`-hu"mored'): Armored, Tumored. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-g-h-m-o-o-o-r-u" | |
-4 letters: dogedom, godhood, groomed, humored, roughed. | |
-5 letters: dodgem, dodger, dogdom, doomed, drogue, drudge, gourde, hooded, horded, moored, morgue, mudder, odored, rogued, roomed, rouged. | |
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