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Good-humored

Definition: Good-humored

Good-humored

Adjective

1. 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-humored

Synonyms: amiable (adj), good-humoured (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Good-humored

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Good-humored

English words defined with "good-humored": Spalpeen. (references)

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Familiar Quotations: Good-humored

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Modern Translation: Good-humored

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.

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Rhyming with "Good-humored"

Words rhyming with "good-humored" (pronounced 'Good`-hu"mored'): Armored, Tumored. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Good-humored

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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