Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Having an even temper; not easily irritated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Not easily irritated; affable
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Having a good temper; not easily vexed or irritated. See good-natured.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a good temper; not easily irritated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. not easily irritated
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was at once affectionate and unsentimental, satirical and good-tempered, orthodox and highly intelligent.
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Casson's good-tempered account of the trip in Red Lacquer Days 1956 is contradicted by Ayer's memory of the "dislike which SS Spencer and I quickly came to feel for one another".
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A big, simple, good-tempered man, slow to anger, who cut his food into tiny pieces and spoke with a slight lisping awkwardness because most of his teeth had been lost to battle or age.
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Cobhar, whose name meant "foam," was good-tempered, but a sound, spirited 14-hand gelding, nonetheless, and a far cry from the brown pony.
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After hundreds of hours of DVD viewing, gallons of industrial strength coffee and a fair few good-tempered arguments with yours truly and other members of the Spec team, it has fallen to Pete to select our 50 top films.
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But I confess myself addicted to this soothing soup or ragout, its nursery friendliness, its good-tempered simplicity.
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Edward laughs his good-tempered laugh, and lets the insult go, but Richard storms off to his lands in the north, taking his obedient wife Anne Neville with him, and sets himself up as a northern princeling, refusing to come south to us, believing himself to be the only true York of England, the only true heir to his father in his enmity with France.
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Editors are just like anybody else -- they like working with people who are good-tempered and dependable.
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Montrose could bring this man, thoroughly good-tempered as he was on all occasions, save when his pride, interest, or prejudices, were interfered with.
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His character was quiet and reserved, though he was described by the landscape painter B. W. Leader as ‘most good-tempered, liberal and hospitable, fond of a joke’ ibid., 3.141.
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