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Definition of Good-humoured
1. Adjective. Disposed to please. "An amiable villain with a cocky sidelong grin"
Similar to: Good-natured
Derivative terms: Amiability, Amiability, Amiableness, Good-humoredness, Good-humouredness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Good-humoured
Literary usage of Good-humoured
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"Margaret, the other sister, was a good-humoured, well-disposed girl; but as she
had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"His large eyes, which looked larger behind his large spectacles, were full of
good-humoured life and force; and though he was neither witty nor brilliant in ..."
3. The Talisman: A Tale of the Crusaders by Walter Scott (1878)
"Both were courteous; but the courtesy of the Christian seemed to flow rather from
a good-humoured sense of what was due to others; that of the Moslem, ..."
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