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Word Meanings - GOOD-NATURED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked. Syn. -- Good-natured, Good-tempered, Good-humored. Good-natured denotes a disposition to please and be pleased. Good-tempered denotes a habit of mind which is not easily ruffied by provocations or other

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Naturally mild in temper; not easily provoked. Syn. -- Good-natured, Good-tempered, Good-humored. Good-natured denotes a disposition to please and be pleased. Good-tempered denotes a habit of mind which is not easily ruffied by provocations or other disturbing influences. Good-humored is applied to a spirit full of ease and cheerfulness, as displayed in one's outward deportment and in social intercourse. A good-natured man recommends himself to all by the spirit which governs him. A good-humored man recommends himself particularly as a companion. A good-tempered man is rarely betrayed into anything which can disturb the serenity of the social circle.

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  • GOOD-HUMORED
    Having a cheerful spirit and demeanor; good-tempered. See Good- natured.
  • ACCEPTABLE
    Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
  • OBLIGABLE
    Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can come under obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and another is not. Emerson.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • OBLIGER
    One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
  • AMIABLENESS
    The quality of being amiable; amiability.
  • AMIABLE
    friend, fr. amare to love. The meaning has been influenced by F. aimable, L. amabilis lovable, fr. amare to love. Cf. Amicable, 1. Lovable; lovely; pleasing. So amiable a prospect. Sir T. Herbert. 2. Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious;
  • OBLIGEMENT
    Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
  • PLEASER
    One who pleases or gratifies.
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • PLEASANTNESS
    The state or quality of being pleasant.
  • PLEASURIST
    A person devoted to worldly pleasure. Sir T. Browne.
  • CHEERFULNESS
    Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
  • PLEASURER
    A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
  • ACCOMMODATION
    1. The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to. "The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions." Sir M. Hale. 2. Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
  • GRATIFY
    1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains
  • GOOD-HUMOREDLY
    With a cheerful spirit; in a cheerful or good-tempered manner.
  • PLEASURELESS
    Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
  • OBLIGATORINESS
    The quality or state of being obligatory.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • INGRATEFUL
    1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
  • OVERPLEASE
    To please excessively.
  • DISOBLIGER
    One who disobliges.
  • INCONSISTENTLY
    In an inconsistent manner.
  • DISOBLIGE
    1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come
  • UNACCEPTABLE
    Not acceptable; not pleasing; not welcome; unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; offensive. -- Un`ac*cept"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`ac*cept"a*bly, adv.

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