well-behavedadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌwɛlbᵻˈheɪvd/, U.S.

/ˌwɛlbəˈheɪvd/,

/ˌwɛlbiˈheɪvd/

Forms: see well adv. and n.⁴ and behaved adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., behaved adj.

Etymology: < well adv. + behaved adj.

A. adj.

1. Demonstrating or having appropriate conduct or manners; decorous or obedient.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective]

well-governed?a1425

well-behaved1577

well-demeaned1586

well-moderated1603

morate1652

well-conducted1772

good-behaved1822

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > of conduct

well-behaved1577

1577 R. Baynes Praise of Solitarinesse 26 Musicall birdes..maye rightly be sayde, to followe a wished and well behaued kinde of life.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 56 Hee..gaue such orderly and wel-behaued reproofe to al vncomelinesse.

1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore ii. sig. E3 A very modest welbehau'd young Maide.

1695 A. Boyer Char. Virtues & Vices 100 Justice, in moderate and well-behaved Judges, is often only the love of their Preferment.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 58 His Two Sons were very pretty well behaved Youths.

1799 Standing Orders for 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons 41 They [sc. rough riders] must be..well-behaved men,..who are likely to carry a proper command in their Riding-school business.

1813 Ld. Byron Giaour 489 (note) The Koran allots at least a third of Paradise to well-behaved women.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii. 126 I have met one or two creatures like you before, and found them very agreeable and well-behaved.

1899 W. De Morgan in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 17 A story which kept us all quiet and well-behaved till washing-up time.

1920 C. Rickards Prison Chaplain on Dartmoor vi. 159 When it was found that old Smith was the runaway, every one was rather surprised, as he was a well-behaved convict.

1963 J. Thompson Grifters (1985) ii. 10 He was an excellent student in school, and exceptionally well-behaved.

2011 Vanity Fair Mar. 323/1 Davis and Sarandon morphed their characters from conventional, well-behaved women to panicked parties in a murder to existential road warriors.

2. Mathematics. Conforming to expectation or having useful properties, such as continuity or differentiability (in the case of a function), absolute convergence (in the case of a series), or non-singularity or smoothness (in the case of geometric entities). Cf. well-conditioned adj. 2c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > relating to mathematical property

simple1570

dissevered1605

periodicala1690

irreductible1753

analytical1799

analytic1800

compound1806

well-conditioned1843

one-valued1884

non-empty1905

well-behaved1912

minimax1917

irredundant1925

non-linear1930

constructive1938

extremal1939

max-min1949

meta-analytic1968

meta-analytic1978

1912 E. W. Hobson Mathematics 6 Well-behaved functions, without abnormal singularities..are likely to turn up in Physical investigations.

1939 C. B. Boyer Concepts of Calculus vi. 246 Inasmuch as Euler restricted himself to well-behaved functions, he did not become involved in those subtle difficulties connected with the notions of infinity.

1965 E. M. Patterson & D. E. Rutherford Elem. Abstr. Algebra iii. 60 Of the two operations in a ring R, addition is ‘well-behaved’ in that it satisfies the commutative and associative laws and there exist an identity element and inverses... Multiplication is not so well-behaved.

2006 P. J. Nahin Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula v. 205 All ‘well-behaved’ functions have Fourier transforms.

3. Of a computer program: interacting with hardware or operating systems via standard system calls rather than directly, and therefore able to be used on different machines.

ΘΚΠ

society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [adjective] > standardized

well-behaved1984

1984 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Jan. 42/1 The disk drives can read and write IBM-PC format disks, and of several programs tried on the system, those that were ‘well behaved’ worked and those, such as word processors, that tend to directly address the machine's hardware would not always work.

1984 Austral. Personal Computer May 65/3 PC mode handles all well-behaved programs... In the case of direct hardware calls, problems usually arise if a ‘not quite IBM-compatible’ machine is used.

2009 J. Andrews Fixing Windows Vista i. 26 Well-behaved software like Belarc Advisor will uninstall with no problems.

B. n.

With plural agreement. With the: well-behaved people as a class.

ΚΠ

1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. lxx. 83 Whiles the censorious Reader, vpon occasion thereof, shall comment vpon thy bad life; Wheras in this euerie mans heart is a Toombe, and euerie mannes tongue writes an Epitaph vpon the well behaued.

1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxx. 262 To give all due encouragement to the well-behaved.

1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 108 He prefers the well-behaved among women, who can worship and fawn.

1968 ABA Jrnl. Oct. 968/1 He must select his suspect with great care, so as to rid the streets of criminals without inconveniencing the well behaved.

1999 Independent 10 Nov. i. 15/6 Lots of tiny little projects: presents for entrepreneurs; presents for home parents; presents for IT training... presents in fact for all the well-behaved.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	well-behaved
释义	well-behavedadj.n. Brit. /ˌwɛlbᵻˈheɪvd/, U.S. /ˌwɛlbəˈheɪvd/, /ˌwɛlbiˈheɪvd/ Forms: see well adv. and n.⁴ and behaved adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., behaved adj. Etymology: < well adv. + behaved adj. A. adj. 1. Demonstrating or having appropriate conduct or manners; decorous or obedient. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] well-governed?a1425 well-behaved1577 well-demeaned1586 well-moderated1603 morate1652 well-conducted1772 good-behaved1822 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > of conduct well-behaved1577 1577 R. Baynes Praise of Solitarinesse 26 Musicall birdes..maye rightly be sayde, to followe a wished and well behaued kinde of life. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 56 Hee..gaue such orderly and wel-behaued reproofe to al vncomelinesse. View more context for this quotation 1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore ii. sig. E3 A very modest welbehau'd young Maide. 1695 A. Boyer Char. Virtues & Vices 100 Justice, in moderate and well-behaved Judges, is often only the love of their Preferment. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 58 His Two Sons were very pretty well behaved Youths. 1799 Standing Orders for 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons 41 They [sc. rough riders] must be..well-behaved men,..who are likely to carry a proper command in their Riding-school business. 1813 Ld. Byron Giaour 489 (note) The Koran allots at least a third of Paradise to well-behaved women. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii. 126 I have met one or two creatures like you before, and found them very agreeable and well-behaved. 1899 W. De Morgan in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 17 A story which kept us all quiet and well-behaved till washing-up time. 1920 C. Rickards Prison Chaplain on Dartmoor vi. 159 When it was found that old Smith was the runaway, every one was rather surprised, as he was a well-behaved convict. 1963 J. Thompson Grifters (1985) ii. 10 He was an excellent student in school, and exceptionally well-behaved. 2011 Vanity Fair Mar. 323/1 Davis and Sarandon morphed their characters from conventional, well-behaved women to panicked parties in a murder to existential road warriors. 2. Mathematics. Conforming to expectation or having useful properties, such as continuity or differentiability (in the case of a function), absolute convergence (in the case of a series), or non-singularity or smoothness (in the case of geometric entities). Cf. well-conditioned adj. 2c. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > relating to mathematical property simple1570 dissevered1605 periodicala1690 irreductible1753 analytical1799 analytic1800 compound1806 well-conditioned1843 one-valued1884 non-empty1905 well-behaved1912 minimax1917 irredundant1925 non-linear1930 constructive1938 extremal1939 max-min1949 meta-analytic1968 meta-analytic1978 1912 E. W. Hobson Mathematics 6 Well-behaved functions, without abnormal singularities..are likely to turn up in Physical investigations. 1939 C. B. Boyer Concepts of Calculus vi. 246 Inasmuch as Euler restricted himself to well-behaved functions, he did not become involved in those subtle difficulties connected with the notions of infinity. 1965 E. M. Patterson & D. E. Rutherford Elem. Abstr. Algebra iii. 60 Of the two operations in a ring R, addition is ‘well-behaved’ in that it satisfies the commutative and associative laws and there exist an identity element and inverses... Multiplication is not so well-behaved. 2006 P. J. Nahin Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula v. 205 All ‘well-behaved’ functions have Fourier transforms. 3. Of a computer program: interacting with hardware or operating systems via standard system calls rather than directly, and therefore able to be used on different machines. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > programming language > program or code > [adjective] > standardized well-behaved1984 1984 Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Jan. 42/1 The disk drives can read and write IBM-PC format disks, and of several programs tried on the system, those that were ‘well behaved’ worked and those, such as word processors, that tend to directly address the machine's hardware would not always work. 1984 Austral. Personal Computer May 65/3 PC mode handles all well-behaved programs... In the case of direct hardware calls, problems usually arise if a ‘not quite IBM-compatible’ machine is used. 2009 J. Andrews Fixing Windows Vista i. 26 Well-behaved software like Belarc Advisor will uninstall with no problems. B. n. With plural agreement. With the: well-behaved people as a class. ΚΠ 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. lxx. 83 Whiles the censorious Reader, vpon occasion thereof, shall comment vpon thy bad life; Wheras in this euerie mans heart is a Toombe, and euerie mannes tongue writes an Epitaph vpon the well behaued. 1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxx. 262 To give all due encouragement to the well-behaved. 1879 G. Meredith Egoist II. v. 108 He prefers the well-behaved among women, who can worship and fawn. 1968 ABA Jrnl. Oct. 968/1 He must select his suspect with great care, so as to rid the streets of criminals without inconveniencing the well behaved. 1999 Independent 10 Nov. i. 15/6 Lots of tiny little projects: presents for entrepreneurs; presents for home parents; presents for IT training... presents in fact for all the well-behaved. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1577
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