WELL BEHAVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well behaved mean? 

• WELL BEHAVED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL BEHAVED has 1 sense:

1. (usually of children) someone who behaves in a manner that the speaker believes is correct

  Familiarity information: WELL BEHAVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WELL BEHAVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(usually of children) someone who behaves in a manner that the speaker believes is correct

Synonyms:

well-behaved; well behaved

Context example:

a well-behaved child

Similar:

good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)

 Context examples 

They are very well behaved, good kind of girls; and I think the attention is due to them, as their uncle did so very well by Edward.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“He is perfectly well behaved, polite, and unassuming,” said her uncle.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

But all the gifts of the first eleven fairies were in the meantime fulfilled; for the princess was so beautiful, and well behaved, and good, and wise, that everyone who knew her loved her.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)