good-humored

adjective

Happy, cheerful, amiable.

Meanings

adjectivegood-humored (comparative better-humored or more good-humored, superlative best-humored or most good-humored)

comparative better-humored · comparative more good-humored · superlative best-humored · superlative most good-humored · alternative goodhumored · alternative goodhumoured · alternative good-humoured

  1. Happy, cheerful, amiable.

    Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses.

    1892–1893, Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencraft Joly, Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivedisposed to please

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

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