GOOD-NATURED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does good-natured mean? 

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

1. having an easygoing and cheerful disposition

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOOD-NATURED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having an easygoing and cheerful disposition

Context example:

the sounds of good-natured play

Similar:

amiable; good-humored; good-humoured (disposed to please)

equable; even-tempered; good-tempered; placid (not easily irritated)

Also:

agreeable (conforming to your own liking or feelings or nature)

kind (having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior)

pleasant (affording pleasure; being in harmony with your taste or likings)

Attribute:

nature (the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions)

Antonym:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

Derivation:

good-naturedness (a cheerful willingness to be obliging)

 Context examples 

"Such a man!" laughed good-natured Mrs. K., as she put the relics in the rag bag.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That is kind of you, however—kind and good-natured.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“You were very good-natured to me once, when I am afraid I didn't show that I thought so.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And she is a good-natured woman after all.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

In everything else she is as good-natured a girl as ever lived.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He stared at me with a hopeless expression upon his vacuous, good-natured, scrubby little face.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Buck saw money pass between them, and was not surprised when Curly, a good-natured Newfoundland, and he were led away by the little weazened man.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

It was impossible for any one to be more thoroughly good-natured, or more determined to be happy than Mrs. Palmer.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“Quite right! Quite right!” said the Prince, with a good-natured smile, patting me in a friendly way upon the shoulder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is like her: she is so good-natured.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)