GOOD-HUMOURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good-humoured mean? 

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

1. disposed to please

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD-HUMOURED (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-humouredness (a cheerful willingness to be obliging)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Thorpe was a widow, and not a very rich one; she was a good-humoured, well-meaning woman, and a very indulgent mother.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

So I carried away a last impression of his sensual, good-humoured face, his high cravat, and his broad leather thighs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Elton is good-humoured, cheerful, obliging, and gentle.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Lizzy is not a bit better than the others; and I am sure she is not half so handsome as Jane, nor half so good-humoured as Lydia.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I fancy Lord S. is very good-humoured and pleasant in his own family, and I do not think him so very ill-looking as I did—at least, one sees many worse.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Either of them would, in all probability, make him an affectionate, good-humoured wife.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He is perfectly good-humoured respecting his failure, and reminds me that he always did consider himself slow.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mrs. Jennings, Lady Middleton's mother, was a good-humoured, merry, fat, elderly woman, who talked a great deal, seemed very happy, and rather vulgar.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Then, suddenly realising the full purport of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, he did look so good-humoured and so jolly that it didn't seem half so hard to refuse him as it did poor Dr. Seward; so I said, as lightly as I could, that I did not know anything of hitching, and that I wasn't broken to harness at all yet.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)