GOOD NATURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good nature mean? 

• GOOD NATURE (noun)
  The noun GOOD NATURE has 1 sense:

1. a cheerful, obliging disposition

  Familiarity information: GOOD NATURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD NATURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cheerful, obliging disposition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("good nature" is a kind of...):

disposition; temperament (your usual mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "good nature"):

good will; goodwill; grace (a disposition to kindness and compassion)

forbearance; longanimity; patience (good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence)

easygoingness (being without worry or concern)

risibility (a disposition to laugh)

Antonym:

ill nature (a disagreeable, irritable, or malevolent disposition)

 Context examples 

I have found him capable of giving me much information on various subjects; and he has always answered my inquiries with readiness of good-breeding and good nature.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Billee’s one fault was his excessive good nature, while Joe was the very opposite, sour and introspective, with a perpetual snarl and a malignant eye.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Charles, in his real concern and good nature, would go home with her; there was no preventing him.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But you have more good nature and all that, than anybody living, I believe.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“You, doctor! Top o' the morning to you, sir!” cried Silver, broad awake and beaming with good nature in a moment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My mother, however, had such confidence either in his good nature or in her own powers of persuasion, that she already began to make furtive preparations for my departure.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His gentleness was never tinged by dogmatism, and his instructions were given with an air of frankness and good nature that banished every idea of pedantry.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But constancy, chastity, good sense, and good nature, were not rated, because they would not bear the charge of collecting.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Pausing to turn a page, the lad saw her looking and, with boyish good nature offered half his paper, saying bluntly, "want to read it? That's a first-rate story."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He liked very much to have his friends come and see him; and from various united causes, from his long residence at Hartfield, and his good nature, from his fortune, his house, and his daughter, he could command the visits of his own little circle, in a great measure, as he liked.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)