good-natured

See also: goodnatured

English

Alternative forms

• goodnatured

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʊdˈneɪtʃəd/

Adjective

good-natured (comparative more good-natured, superlative most good-natured)

1. Of or pertaining to an amicable, kindly disposition.
   • 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter I, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 22:

     “It is singular,” said the Lady, addressing Warden; “the animal is not only so good-natured to all, but so particularly fond of children. […]”

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 181:

     Rasmus was a tall, powerful man, with a weather-beaten, furrowed face of a good-natured expression.

   • 1964 August, “Dr. B lights a pre-election fuse”, in Modern Railways, page 76:

     However, the immediate howls of outrage from the industry were in many cases less than good-natured.

Translations

of or pertaining to an amicable, kindly disposition

• Belarusian: дабраду́шны (dabradúšny), лаго́дны (lahódny)
• Bulgarian: доброду́шен (bg) (dobrodúšen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 善良 (zh) (shànliáng)

• Czech: dobrácký
• Dutch: zachtaardig (nl), goedaardig (nl)
• Finnish: hyväntahtoinen (fi)
• German: gutmütig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: εὔκολος (eúkolos)

• Korean: 착하다 (ko) (chakhada)
• Macedonian: добродушен (dobrodušen)
• Polish: dobroduszny (pl), arcydobry
• Russian: доброду́шный (ru) (dobrodúšnyj), до́брый (ru) (dóbryj)
• Serbo-Croatian: dobroćudan
• Slovene: dobrodušen
• Spanish: bonachón (es)
• Ukrainian: доброду́шний (dobrodúšnyj), ла́гідний (láhidnyj)

References

• “good-natured”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.