GOOD-HUMORED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good-humored mean? 

• GOOD-HUMORED (adjective)
  The adjective GOOD-HUMORED has 1 sense:

1. disposed to please

  Familiarity information: GOOD-HUMORED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD-HUMORED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disposed to please

Synonyms:

amiable; good-humored; good-humoured

Context example:

an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin

Similar:

good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)

Derivation:

good-humoredness (a cheerful willingness to be obliging)

 Context examples 

The behavior of the audience at present was good-humored, but mischievous.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humored, well-disposed girl; but as she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Their faces were hairless, well formed, and good-humored.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In every other way they were our friends—one might almost say our devoted slaves—but when it was suggested that they should help us to make and carry a plank which would bridge the chasm, or when we wished to get from them thongs of leather or liana to weave ropes which might help us, we were met by a good-humored, but an invincible, refusal.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As to our own representative, the well-known athlete and international Rugby football player, E. D. Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)