good-natured
/ˌɡʊdˈneɪtʃəd
/adjective
Kind, friendly, and patient: everyone was very good-natured about it there was plenty of good-natured banter...
- She was a good-natured, kind and pleasant person and a most helpful neighbour who will be missed by all who knew her.
- Oddly, it isn't included on this debut album though its good-natured whimsy would have chimed well with these songs.
- Amiable, good-natured and good fun, this is a highly promising feature debut from Simon Pegg.
Synonyms
warm-hearted, friendly, amiable;
neighbourly, benevolent, well disposed, favourably disposed, kind, kindly, kind-hearted, generous, magnanimous, unselfish, considerate, thoughtful, obliging, helpful, supportive, charitable;
understanding, sympathetic, lenient, tolerant, easy-going, patient, accommodating
British informal decent
Derivatives
good-naturedly
/ adverb ...- With that, he turned good-naturedly to his schoolmate.
- Friends who live far apart geographically were brought together to good-naturedly discuss mutual interests or angrily denounce differing tastes.
- Jamie Robinson is an expert skipper who, with the help of ship's mate Toby, good-naturedly fuses guests into a surprisingly competent crew.
Rhymes
- indigenousness
- indigent
- indigested
- indigestibility
- indigestible
- indigestibly
- indigestion
- indigestive
- Indigirka
- indignant
- indignantly
- indignation
- indignity
- indigo
- indigobird
- indigo finch
- indigoid
- indigo snake
- indigotin
- Indio
- Indira Gandhi Canal
- indirect
- indirect advertising
- indirect costs
- indirection