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GOOD-HUMOURED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Disposed to please
Example:
an amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin
Synonyms:
amiable; good-humored; good-humoured
Classified under:
Similar:
good-natured (having an easygoing and cheerful disposition)
Derivation:
good-humouredness (a cheerful willingness to be obliging)
Context examples:
The sight of so many good-humoured faces (especially the blacks), the taste of the tropical fruits, and above all the lights that began to shine in the town made a most charming contrast to our dark and bloody sojourn on the island; and the doctor and the squire, taking me along with them, went ashore to pass the early part of the night.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She was hasty, but good-humoured; vain (she could not help it, when every glance in the glass showed her such a flush of loveliness), but not affected; liberal-handed; innocent of the pride of wealth; ingenuous; sufficiently intelligent; gay, lively, and unthinking: she was very charming, in short, even to a cool observer of her own sex like me; but she was not profoundly interesting or thoroughly impressive.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I should dearly love to settle you both in this country; and therefore, Henry, you shall marry the youngest Miss Bertram, a nice, handsome, good-humoured, accomplished girl, who will make you very happy.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
His nose was turned upwards, which increased the good-humoured effect of his countenance at the expense of its dignity.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Harriet was very ready to speak of the share he had had in their moonlight walks and merry evening games; and dwelt a good deal upon his being so very good-humoured and obliging.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Lydia was a stout, well-grown girl of fifteen, with a fine complexion and good-humoured countenance; a favourite with her mother, whose affection had brought her into public at an early age.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Mrs Smith gave a most good-humoured acquiescence.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
His countenance was thoroughly good-humoured; and his manners were as friendly as the style of his letter.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Finding Peggotty within, and being informed by Peggotty (who always volunteered that information to whomsoever would receive it), that she was my old nurse, he had established a good-humoured acquaintance with her, and had stayed to have a little chat with her about me.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mr. Allen, who owned the chief of the property about Fullerton, the village in Wiltshire where the Morlands lived, was ordered to Bath for the benefit of a gouty constitution—and his lady, a good-humoured woman, fond of Miss Morland, and probably aware that if adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad, invited her to go with them.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
